Gold ¼ Stater Beaded Trophy

3 in the Portable Antiquities Scheme database.
1 in the British Museum.
17 in Sills.
The above counts include duplicates.

Allen Type: British Pa.

Chris Rudd puts this coin into an ‘Eastern’ group, which are found in Essex but not comfortably attributed to the Trinovantes or Catuvellauni. Within that, he puts it into a subgroup, ‘Cantian-inspired Gold and Silver Types’, which copy issues of the Cantii but are found north of the Thames. It may indicate that Cantian rulers held territory there, as does the presence of Thurrock potins.

Sills DK 452 (1 obverse, 9 reverse dies): Early North-East Thames Coinage; Type: British Le2/Essex Banded; Quarter Staters: Beaded Trophy. Derived from Cantian (ABC 192) rather than Gallo-Belgic coins and may be intended to emphasise their Cantian roots. The fussy design aligns them with the Flared Mane stater (ABC 2240).

Essex Banded mostly uniface gold is typologically unrelated to other north Thames issues. They might be contemporary to or later than British Ld/Ld. They are simiar to Gallo-Belgic D.

Sills chronology: Gallo-Belgic Ca - British G (Early Clacton) / Aa Westerham - British Ab (Great Waltham) - Shotley (British F) - British Lc/Ld - Local Issues/Essex Banded.

British Museum metallurgical analysis RL10985Y: Au 60%, Ag 14%, Cu 26%.