1/4 Gold Stater with plant on head Class V

The Veneti occupied the Atlantic coast of Armorica — roughly modern-day Brittany — and controlled the tin trade routes between Britain and the Mediterranean world. Caesar's destruction of their fleet in 56 BC effectively ended their political independence, making coins struck before that campaign the last material evidence of an autonomous Venetic monetary tradition. Class V quarter staters are distinguished from earlier Venetic issues by progressive abstraction in the die work, a regional trend that accelerated sharply in the late second century.