Durotriges c.58 BC-AD 43 Hengistbury V-Type Cast Bronze Unit *Very Rare*

Durotriges c.58 BC-AD 43 Hengistbury V-Type Cast Bronze Unit

Very Rare

ABC 2193, 17mm, 2.19g

Obverse

Spike (large Y) with five pellets and a crescent each side.

Reverse

Nine pellets.

 

Provenance

This coin is from The London Collection of Ancient British Coins. For more information click here: The London Collection – Silbury Coins : Silbury Coins.

C Rudd FPL 70, no 60 (2003). Holdenhurst hoard, Hants. Ex Mack coll. CCI 67.0459   VA1340

This coin comes with a previous label.

 

The Durotriges tribe occupied modern day Dorset with part of adjoining Hampshire, Somerset and Wiltshire. There is some mystery over the precise arrangement and correct attribution of coinage in the South-west, the Chute stater is probably struck by the Durotriges tribe but in recent years has been attributed to the Belgae.

The quick debasement of precious metal in the silver staters struck by the Durotriges would suggest an issue with the supply of silver to the area in the early first century AD, perhaps linked to the Roman conquest of West Gaul.