Silver Stater Badbury Rings / Pellet and Ring Type

The Durotriges occupy a peculiar position in Iron Age numismatics: they began with high-silver staters imitating Macedonian gold prototypes and, through decades of deliberate debasement, ended up producing billon and eventually cast bronze pieces with almost no silver content. This stater sits near the transitional middle of that decline, struck during the generation just before the Claudian invasion made the question of tribal coinage moot.

Badbury Rings, the Dorset hillfort that lends its name to this type, has long been proposed as a major Durotrigan political and possibly minting centre, though no confirmed die evidence has been excavated there to date.