Silver Unit - Eastern North Thames Dragon Cross

The Trinovantes occupied territory roughly equivalent to modern Essex and southern Suffolk, and by the mid-first century BC were under sustained pressure from the Catuvellauni to the west — a rivalry that shapes the entire output of their coinage during this period. These small silver units were likely used for high-value transactions and payments to warriors rather than everyday exchange, given the impracticality of their size for market use.

Van Arsdell's sequencing places this type among the later Trinovantian issues before the tribe's political absorption accelerated under Tasciovanus and then Cunobelinus.