1/4 Stater Kidney Head

The Morini occupied the coastal marshes and dense forests of what is now the Pas-de-Calais and Belgian littoral — precisely the territory Caesar described as the most remote of all Gallic peoples when his campaigns reached the region around 56–55 BC. Their coinage, including this quarter stater, was likely struck in the final decades before Roman pressure collapsed the tribe's political autonomy entirely. The so-called "kidney head" designation is a modern typological label derived from the abstracted cranial form, a stylistic reduction carried further here than on comparable Belgic issues.