Gold 1/4 Stater - Regni Ratham Dotty Wreath

The Atrebates and Regini occupied a territory roughly corresponding to modern Sussex, Hampshire, and Berkshire — a region with documented Continental Belgic connections that almost certainly account for the gold coinage tradition itself, derived from imported Macedonian staters circulating through Gaul. By the mid-first century BC, these fractional issues were already highly abstracted derivatives of their prototypes, the design having passed through so many generations of Celtic reinterpretation that the original Hellenistic imagery had dissolved entirely into pattern. The "Dotty Wreath" designation is a modern typological convenience, not an ancient one.