Gold 1/4 Stater Clacton Star

The Clacton Star type belongs to a loose group of uninscribed gold staters and fractions circulating in southeast Britain before Roman administrative coinage displaced them. The Trinovantes, based in what is now Essex and Suffolk, were among the more powerful tribes of late Iron Age Britain — their territory later became the site of Camulodunum, the first Roman colonial capital. Whether these fractions functioned as trade currency, tribute payment, or warrior reward remains genuinely contested among Celtic numismatists.

Sills 414 is a tightly defined variety within his broader classification of the Clacton group.