Gold 1/4 Stater - Berkshire Berkshire Crescents

The Atrebates occupied the Thames Valley and central southern Britain during a period of intense cross-Channel contact with Belgic Gaul — Caesar's campaigns of 55 and 54 BC directly disrupted tribal networks that had been producing and circulating coinage for decades. The Berkshire Crescents type is understood to derive ultimately from Macedonian gold stater prototypes, abstracted through generations of copying until the original imagery became unrecognizable. That progressive abstraction is the entire point: it reflects decades of insular reinterpretation rather than any single political decision.

ABC 998 is one of the more tightly documented quarter stater varieties of the series. The find distribution clusters heavily in Berkshire and north Hampshire.