Unique ID: 57
The Double Snake quarter stater is part of the British Le2 series which was minted by an unknown tribe in the Essex area. There are four types of Le2 quarter staters, the others being S-Type (see 55), Floret (see 60), and Beaded Trophy (see 56), all featuring the banded obverses that were a staple of the coins from Kent. They also all have reverses derived from GB-D, which is also common for Kentish coins (see 44), suggesting that the tribe responsible had emigrated from Kent to North of the Thames. Caesar named five tribes who surrendered to him north of the Thames, and the S on the obverse of the S-Type suggests that it might have been the Segontiaci.
This particular coin is reverse die 1, and is one of only two coins known from this reverse die. The obverse has an arced pattern around the edge which doesn’t appear on any of the other four known coins.