1/4 Stater with simplified profile class VI

The Parisii occupied the Île de la Cité in the Seine long before Caesar's Gallic Wars made their territory a Roman military objective. By the late first century BC, the progressive abstraction of their gold stater coinage had reached a point where the original Macedonian prototype — itself derived from Philip II's issues — was nearly unrecognizable. The quarter stater denominations degraded furthest and fastest, driven by repeated reduction of gold content and die-cutting by craftsmen working increasingly from existing coins rather than any canonical model.

DT#86 falls within Delestrée and Tache's classification of the latest Parisii issues, suggesting production continued well after the Roman conquest of 52 BC.