Quarter Stater: Tree (obverse); Plain Field (reverse) (c. 125–20 BCE): Art, History and Details

Quarter Stater: Tree (obverse); Plain Field (reverse) (c. 125–20 BCE) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

The smaller size of the quarter stater left the artist little room for design. Apparently he was unable to reduce the stater design to such small dimensions. The meaningless jumble is probably part of a larger design.

Object facts

• Title: Quarter Stater: Tree (obverse); Plain Field (reverse)
• Date: c. 125–20 BCE
• Culture: England
• Type: Coins
• Technique: gold
• Dimensions: Diameter: 1 cm (3/8 in.)
• Collection: MED - Numismatics
• Department: Medieval Art
• Accession number: 1969.144

A detail from the museum

The tree-like trophy in the center sits on top of three ringed pellets, surrounded by various motifs.

Collection credit

The Norweb Collection

Further reading listed by the museum

• Cleveland Museum of Art, and Emery May Norweb. English Gold Coins, Ancient to Modern Times, On Loan to the Cleveland Museum of Art from the Norweb Collection. 1968.
• Emery May Norweb Collection (Cleveland, Ohio), Emery May Norweb, C. E. Blunt, F. Elmore Jones, and R. P. Mack. Collection of Ancient British, Romano-British and English Coins. London: Spink, 1971.

View the collection record

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