Gold 1/4 Stater - Regni Regini Boat Tree

The Atrebates arrived in southern Britain from Gaul sometime in the late second or early first century BC, bringing with them coinage traditions ultimately derived from Macedonian gold staters — the Philip II type — which had traveled northwest through centuries of trade and mercenary payment. By the time this quarter stater was struck, that original Hellenistic prototype had been abstracted almost beyond recognition through successive generations of Celtic reinterpretation. ABC 539 is attributed to the period just before Caesar's invasions of 55 and 54 BC, when the Atrebatic kingdom under Commios was consolidating its position across what is now Hampshire and West Sussex.