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1/4 Stater Caesar's Trophy / Late Trophy
| Issuer | Cantii tribe (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 45 BC - 40 BC |
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| Weight | 1.4 g |
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| Reverse description | A highly stylised and abstracted rendering of a Roman military trophy, composed of geometric arrangements of lines and pellets in the Celtic decorative idiom. Two circular ring or annulet motifs are positioned at approximately 2 o'clock and 11 o'clock in the field. Rectangular boxes filled with cross-hatching are placed at the 3 o'clock and 9 o'clock positions, flanking the central trophy motif. The overall composition reflects the Cantian die-engraver's reinterpretation of Roman iconography through a native Celtic visual vocabulary, with the trophy reduced to a schematic arrangement of linear elements. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The "Caesar's Trophy" designation reflects a longstanding interpretation that the abstract trophy motif on these Cantian staters derives from Roman triumphal imagery introduced — or at least made unavoidable — following Caesar's two incursions into Britain in 55 and 54 BC. Whether the Cantii were copying Roman iconography deliberately or absorbing it through prolonged contact with Romanized Gaul remains genuinely contested. The dating places production squarely in the decade after Caesar left Britain never to return, during a period when southeastern tribal politics were in considerable flux.
At 1.4g, this quarter stater sits at the lighter end of Cantian gold output, consistent with a regional weight standard that diverged from the heavier Gaulish tradition.