Durotriges c.58 BC-AD 43 Omo Silver Stater *Very Rare*

Durotriges c.58 BC-AD 43 Omo Silver Stater

Very Rare

ABC 2172, 19mm, 3.46g

Obverse

Abstract head of Apollo right (crude wreath, hairbar with shallow crescents).

Reverse

Disjointed horse left with decorated tails. Horizontal coffee bean behind. Ringed pellet each side of M-shape in exergue, dots around.

Comments

The majority of this type are from a poorly recorded hoard found near Southampton in 1997.

Provenance

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

A Gillis PT (Sept 1997) ex Southampton hoard   VA1235 variant

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.