'Ex Head' Unit - Belgae Tribe - Ex

The Atrebates arrived in southern Britain as part of the Belgic migrations from northern Gaul, and their coinage tradition followed — adapted from continental prototypes but increasingly abstracted over successive generations of striking. By the mid-first century BC, the figural elements on their silver units had fractured into near-geometric fragments, a process of stylistic dissolution that makes precise die attribution exceptionally difficult. ABC 995 sits toward the later end of this sequence, likely post-Caesarian in date, struck as the tribe consolidated under rulers who would eventually seek accommodation with Rome.