Gold Stater Curdridge B

The Curdridge B type takes its name from the Hampshire findspot where a significant concentration of these staters came to light, a naming convention common to uninscribed British Celtic coinage where no issuing authority declared itself in text. These coins predate Roman contact with Britain proper — Julius Caesar's first crossing came in 55 BC, the very end of this type's production window — placing them squarely in a monetary world organized around inter-tribal exchange and cross-Channel trade with Armorican Gaul rather than any Roman-influenced monetary framework.