1/4 Silver Stater 'Durotrigan I'

Aversbeschreibung	Highly abstract and stylised triskelion design derived from a degraded classical head, rendered as three curvilinear, comma-shaped pellet-tipped elements arranged in rotational symmetry across the field. The design is entirely geometric and non-figurative, a characteristic feature of late Durotrigan coinage, with small annulets and pellets distributed across the surrounding field. The overall composition reflects the advanced abstraction typical of insular Celtic artistic tradition, with no legible inscription or lettering present.
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Zusätzliche Informationen	The Durotriges occupied what is now Dorset and parts of Somerset and Wiltshire, and their coinage tells a story of deliberate, progressive debasement — this quarter stater falls within the earlier, higher-silver phase before the tribe's issues deteriorated into essentially tin-washed base metal. That decline tracks directly with the mounting pressure of Roman encroachment in the decades before the Claudian invasion of 43 AD. Hoards from Dorset, particularly around the hillfort at Maiden Castle, have produced concentrations of Durotrigan issues suggesting rapid burial during periods of instability.