Gold 1/4 Stater Winchester Sun Undertype

The "Winchester Sun" undertype designation indicates this is a planchet originally struck with an earlier design that was subsequently overstruck — the ghosted impressions of the prior type visible beneath the dominant strike. Sills' classification of these quarter staters has substantially revised earlier attributions that lumped many Atrebatic fractional gold issues under catch-all ABC references. The Atrebates under Commius and his successors struck heavily during the decades following Caesar's two incursions into Britain, a period when tribal coinage in the southeast accelerated sharply, likely driven by tribute obligations and cross-channel trade with Belgic Gaul.