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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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| Currency | Stater |
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| Obverse description | Uninscribed and largely plain field, exhibiting a banded or striated surface treatment typical of Late Iron Age Kentish coinage. The absence of figurative imagery reflects the abstract Celtic artistic tradition, with the flan showing an irregular, slightly convex profile characteristic of the hammered quarter stater denomination. |
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| Mintage | ND (45 BC - 40 BC) |
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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.