Gold Stater Early Cheriton

The Atrebates arrived in southern Britain from Belgic Gaul in the early first century BC, bringing Continental coinage traditions with them. The Early Cheriton stater series descends, through multiple generations of stylistic degradation, from the Macedonian gold staters of Philip II — the abstracted design drifting further from its source with each successive die. Sills' classification places this type precisely within that degeneration sequence, anchoring it chronologically to the decades just before Caesar's invasions of 55 and 54 BC scrambled the political arrangements of the southeastern tribes entirely.