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Duro Boat Gold quarter stater
Coin 04 · Durotriges (South Western region)
A small uninscribed gold quarter stater of the Durotriges. One face has the block design the record calls 'three men in a boat'; the other has bars crossing the field in a zigzag.
- Issuer or group
- Durotriges (South Western region)
- Metal
- Gold quarter stater
- Date (record)
- 80–50 BC
- Catalogue refs (record)
- ABC 2205; BMC 414–418
- Specimen
- PAS 807907
- Specimen size
- 10.2 mm across, 1.58 g (from the record)
Obverse. 'Three men in a boat' design, with a pellet rosette to the left.
Reverse. Zigzag across the field, with a Y-shaped object and uncertain objects to each side.
Features
| # | Feature | Face | As-minted evidence | On the found coin | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Block design ('three men') | Obverse | Observed in the photo | Survives on this find | Three raised block shapes above the curved line. The record calls the design 'three men in a boat'. |
| 2 | Curved band ('boat') | Obverse | Observed in the photo | Survives on this find | The long curved band under the blocks, read as the boat. |
| 3 | Row of spikes under the band | Obverse | Observed in the photo | Survives on this find | Pointed raised strokes in a row below the curved band. |
| 4 | Pellet rosette | Obverse | Observed in the photo | Partly visible on this find | A small group of raised dots at the left edge. |
| 5 | Zigzag bars | Reverse | Observed in the photo | Survives on this find | Straight raised bars crossing the field at angles. |
In the record but not modelled
- Y-shaped object and uncertain objects to each side: Named in the record; we could not pick them out confidently in the photo, so they are not marked.
The found specimen
- Wear
- Light to moderate: the raised blocks have softened tops.
- Corrosion
- None visible; gold surface with scratches.
- Strike
- The design fills most of the flan.
- Completeness
- Complete; irregular outline.
These are descriptions, not grades. Thickness in the model: inferred from the recorded weight and outline area, assuming about 15.0 g/cm³ for the broad metal.
Source and licence
Based on a photograph by Frank Basford / The Portable Antiquities Scheme, via the Portable Antiquities Scheme and Wikimedia Commons (file page as retrieved, revision 1142794601), licensed CC BY 2.0. Changes: the two faces were cut out of the photograph, rotated and rescaled to a common frame, and used to make an interpretive 3D reconstruction. Depth, the edge and unseen surfaces are inferred, not measured. The as-minted version is further cleaned, restored and recoloured by us.
SHA-256 of the archived original: 3f5b894e6655cec773c6b1600f7cab5172fd3050645a681edb02b5560f391383. Retrieved 2026-10-16.