Gold Stater Pellet Ring

The Trinovantes occupied what is now Essex and southern Suffolk, and were among the more politically complex tribes of late pre-Roman Britain — alternately resisting and accommodating Roman influence during Caesar's expeditions of 55 and 54 BC. Coins of this type were almost certainly produced in the generation immediately following that contact, when tribal coinage in Britain was shifting from purely abstract designs toward forms influenced, however loosely, by Mediterranean monetary practices.

The "pellet ring" designation in Sills' classification refers to a specific die characteristic used to distinguish sub-types within a broader stater series, not a design category in the popular sense.