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Bronze Unit 'Durotrigan K'
| Issuer | Durotriges tribe |
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| Year | 10-43 |
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| Currency | Stater |
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| Reverse description | Plain field bearing an arrangement of ten pellets distributed across the flan in a roughly organised pattern, without any figurative or symbolic devices. This minimalist reverse is characteristic of the latest and most abstracted issues of Durotrigan bronze coinage, representing a near-total departure from the earlier horse and rider reverse type. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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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.