1/4 Gold Stater with small bare head Class I

The Veneti occupied the Atlantic coast of what is now Brittany, and their coinage developed largely through contact with Armorican neighbors rather than direct Macedonian influence — making their gold fractions somewhat anomalous in typological terms. Class I of this series is distinguished by the reduced, unelaborated head treatment, likely an early step in the abstraction sequence that would eventually render figural types nearly unrecognizable on later Armorican issues.

At 1.92 g, these quarter staters circulated as functional trade currency in a region heavily dependent on cross-channel exchange with Britain, where comparable fractional gold was in active use.