Gold 1/4 Stater Apollo Geometric

The Durotriges occupied the hillforts of modern Dorset and Somerset, and their coinage represents one of the most dramatic degradation sequences in Celtic numismatics — each generation of dies drifting further from the original Macedonian gold stater prototype until the imagery dissolved almost entirely into abstract geometry. This quarter stater sits near the end of that process.

By the late first century BC, Durotrigan gold was already giving way to a debased cast bronze coinage, one of the few Celtic groups to make that transition before the Claudian invasion ended their minting entirely in 43 AD.