Silver 1/4 Stater Duro Boat Dots / Second Geometric Type

The Durotriges occupied the southwestern peninsula of Britain — roughly modern Dorset and Somerset — and their coinage represents one of the most dramatic degradation sequences in Celtic numismatics. Originally derived from Macedonian gold staters transmitted through Gaulish intermediaries, the design collapsed over successive generations of copying until abstract dots and arcs bore almost no visual relationship to the prototype. This particular quarter stater belongs to the phase when silver content was already falling sharply, a process that would eventually produce purely base-metal issues by the time of the Roman conquest in 43 AD.