Gallo Belgic Morini 2nd Century BC Boat Tree Gold Quarter Stater

Gallo Belgic Morini 2nd Century BC

Boat Tree

Boat with 2 occupants?/Tree like object

Gold Quarter Stater

ABC40; 11mm, 1.45g

A pretty example with the outer border of crosses shown on the obverse.

Provenance

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

Timeline PT, 2005 VA69-1 (early type)

This coin comes with a previous label.

Iron Age Gallo Belgic & early uninscribed coins are found all over Britain. These coins were made in Gaul then imported during the 2nd-1st Century BC, before coin manufacture was established in Britain. The introduction of Britain’s own coinage in around 60-50 BC was in an uninscribed form to start with, only later did rulers realise the potential of inscriptions.