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Gold ¼ Stater Three Annulets
| Issuer | Trinovantes tribe (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 30 BC - 25 BC |
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| Currency | Stater |
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| Reverse description | A stylised horse advancing to right, rendered in the distinctive linear Celtic manner. The animal is depicted with a single-line mane, a ringed pellet eye, a characteristic scissor-handle or lyre-shaped mouth, and a single-line ear terminating in a pellet. A floral or wheel symbol, interpreted as a solar motif, appears behind the horse, centred on a ringed pellet. Three annulets are placed above the horse's head. A partial inscription reading DVBNOVALAVN appears above, associating the issue with the Trinovantian dynastic or mint authority. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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The Trinovantes occupied territory roughly equivalent to modern Essex and southern Suffolk, and by the late first century BC were among the most powerful tribes in southeastern Britain — until Caesar's two incursions forced their leadership into an awkward subordination to the Catuvellauni. This quarter stater series belongs to the period immediately following that political disruption, when the tribe was still issuing independent coinage but the pressure from neighboring Cunobelin's expanding dynasty was already building.
Van Arsdell 1680-1 is among the lighter quarter stater issues of the period, consistent with a gradual debasement trend observable across late Trinovantian gold.