Gold 1/4 Stater Carn Brea

The Carn Brea type takes its name from the Iron Age hillfort in Cornwall, though the Atrebates and Regini were concentrated further east across Hampshire and Sussex — the find-spot distribution of this quarter stater type tells a complicated story about tribal exchange networks and long-distance movement of high-value coin in the decades immediately surrounding Caesar's two British expeditions of 55 and 54 BC. Whether that military pressure accelerated or disrupted local gold coinage output remains an open question among Celtic numismatists. Sills 148 and 149 represent distinct die groupings within the type.