Gold 1/4 Stater Wheel Annulets

The Dobunni occupied the Cotswold region of central Britain and were among the more politically stable of the southern tribes in the decades before and after Caesar's expeditions of 55 and 54 BC. Their coinage tradition developed independently of direct Roman influence, drawing instead on continental Gaulish prototypes that had filtered across the Channel over the preceding century. This particular fractional issue belongs to a phase of Dobunnic production before the tribe began adopting inscribed coinage under named rulers — a transition that would begin sometime in the early first century AD.