The Trinovantes, based in what is now Essex and southern Suffolk, were among the most politically significant tribes in pre-conquest Britain — Julius Caesar identified them as the strongest tribe in the region and accepted their submission in 54 BC, using them as a counterweight against the Catuvellauni. These quarter staters circulated in that charged interval between Caesar's withdrawal and the eventual Catuvellaunian absorption of Trinovantian territory, a process essentially complete by the time of Cunobelin's ascendancy.
The floret trophy type is among the more visually distinctive of the North Thames series, though its precise issuing authority within the tribe remains debated in the literature.
The Trinovantes, based in what is now Essex and southern Suffolk, were among the most politically significant tribes in pre-conquest Britain — Julius Caesar identified them as the strongest tribe in the region and accepted their submission in 54 BC, using them as a counterweight against the Catuvellauni. These quarter staters circulated in that charged interval between Caesar's withdrawal and the eventual Catuvellaunian absorption of Trinovantian territory, a process essentially complete by the time of Cunobelin's ascendancy.
The floret trophy type is among the more visually distinctive of the North Thames series, though its precise issuing authority within the tribe remains debated in the literature.