¼ Stater with boat biface

The Morini occupied the coastal marshlands of what is now the Pas-de-Calais and Belgian littoral — territory Caesar described as nearly impenetrable, and which his legions never fully subdued. This quarter stater belongs to a coinage tradition that likely facilitated cross-Channel exchange with southeastern Britain, and the boat motif is almost certainly a functional reference rather than a decorative one: the Morini controlled the shortest crossing to Britain and almost certainly profited from it.

The tight clustering of references — DT, LT, Van Arsdell, Mack — reflects decades of scholarly effort to untangle the coinages of the Channel tribes, where die links and metallurgical analysis have done more than typology alone to establish attributions.