Gold Stater - Belgae Chute-Cheriton Transitional

The Chute-Cheriton Transitional occupies a specific evolutionary moment in British Celtic coinage — it sits between the abstract disintegration of the Gallo-Belgic E imports and the fully localised British Q stater tradition. The Atrebates appear to have arrived in southern Britain from the Belgic regions of Gaul sometime in the late second or early first century BC, bringing Continental striking practices with them, and their earliest issues show a coinage still negotiating between imported prototypes and emerging insular conventions.

The "transitional" classification is typological, not speculative — ABC 752 is defined by specific die-linked characteristics that place it sequentially between established ABC types with reasonable confidence.