Catalog
Bronze Unit 'Durotrigan K'
| Issuer | Durotriges tribe |
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| Year | 10-43 |
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| Currency | Stater |
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| Obverse description | Severely stylised and disintegrated head of Apollo facing right, rendered in abstract Celtic fashion. The design is dominated by a large central Y-shaped element flanked on each side by a group of seven pellets arranged in the field. The overall composition reflects the late-stage degeneration of the classical Macedonian prototype common to Durotrigan coinage. |
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| Mintage | ND (10-43) |
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The Durotriges occupied a territory roughly corresponding to modern Dorset and Somerset, and their coinage tells a story of deliberate isolation. While neighboring tribes increasingly adopted Roman stylistic conventions in the decades before the Claudian invasion of 43 AD, the Durotriges moved in the opposite direction — their bronze series grew progressively more abstract and debased, a monetary trajectory that appears to reflect calculated resistance rather than ignorance of outside practice.
Sills's classification of this type as 'Durotrigan K' places it within the later phase of the series, struck in the final years before the tribe was subjugated following the Vespasian-led campaign through the southwest.