Gold 1/4 Stater - Belgae Curdridge Triad

The "Curdridge Triad" takes its name from the Hampshire findspot where a cluster of these diminutive quarter staters came to light, a pattern common to Atrebatic issues whose distribution hugs the territory between the Thames and the South Downs. Sills 317 sits within a typological sequence tied to the final decades before the Roman reorganization of southern Britain, when Atrebatic tribal coinage was still operating as a genuinely autonomous monetary system rather than a Roman provincial imitation.

At 1.2 g, these fractions were probably used for small-scale transactions or tribute payments — the full stater being too valuable for everyday exchange in a pre-conquest agricultural economy.