Silver Unit - Belgae Danebury Moon Head

The Danebury Moon Head type takes its name from Danebury hillfort in Hampshire, where significant concentrations of Atrebatic coinage were recovered during Barry Cunliffe's excavations in the 1970s and 80s — though the type circulated well beyond that site. The decade bracketing its production coincides almost exactly with Caesar's two British expeditions of 55 and 54 BC, which destabilized tribal politics across the southeast and accelerated the fragmentation of coinage authority among competing Atrebatic factions.

Van Arsdell 282 is a scarce subtype within the broader Moon Head sequence, distinguished by die-specific variations in the lunar arc treatment that specialists use to sequence the series chronologically.