Bronze Unit Hengistbury Mini Dots

The Durotriges occupied what is now Dorset and parts of Somerset and Wiltshire, and their coinage tells a story of progressive debasement — earlier issues in gold gave way to silver, then to a debased billon, and finally to uninscribed bronze struck in the decades immediately before and during the Roman conquest of 43 AD. By the time pieces like this were being produced, Maiden Castle and other major hillforts were still functioning tribal centers, some of which the Second Legion Augusta under Vespasian would assault in a documented campaign through at least twenty oppida.

Hengistbury Head served as a major pre-conquest trading port for the tribe, giving this type its name.