Gold 1/4 Stater - East Wiltshire Three Wheels Left Type

The Dobunni occupied the Severn Valley and Cotswold region, and their coinage tradition developed partly through contact with Gaulish tribes whose own stater designs ultimately derived from the gold philippus — the Macedonian stater of Philip II that flooded into western Europe through mercenary payments. By the time designs reached the Dobunni, abstraction had dissolved the original imagery almost completely. The three-wheel motif on this quarter stater is among the most reduced iterations in British Celtic coinage, likely a regional workshop convention rather than deliberate iconographic choice.