Billon Stater Omo

The Durotriges occupied what is now Dorset and parts of Somerset and Wiltshire, and their coinage tells a story of deliberate economic degradation. Beginning as imitations of the Gallo-Belgic gold stater tradition, Durotrigian issues were progressively debased over roughly a century — gold giving way to silver, silver giving way to billon, until the metal content became almost irrelevant. This piece sits near the terminal point of that process.

The tribe resisted Roman advance longer than most of their neighbors, with significant conflict recorded at Maiden Castle around 43–44 AD — nearly a century after this coin circulated.