Silver Unit - Belgae Danebury Cross and Crescents

The Danebury Cross and Crescents type takes its name from Danebury hillfort in Hampshire, where significant concentrations of Atrebatic coinage have been recovered — the site appears to have functioned as a redistribution center rather than a mint. Production of this type falls squarely within the period of Caesar's Gallic campaigns and his two expeditions to Britain in 55 and 54 BC, events that disrupted cross-Channel trade networks the Atrebates depended on heavily. Commios, the Atrebatic king installed by Caesar as a client ruler, eventually broke with Rome and fled to Britain around 50 BC, bringing continental political tensions directly into the tribal currency system.