Gold ¼ Stater Three Annulets

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.