Celtic coins can tell us many things about life in Late Iron Age Britain that we wouldn't otherwise know from other sources such as archaeology and classical authors. Tribal emblems are an example of this. They often feature on coins and nowhere else. Maybe they were woven into flags and carved in wooden totems, but none have survived 2,000 years in British earth. That's what makes a gold stater like this so precious in the silent symbolic data it conveys to us. The branch-like device is almost certainly a tribal emblem of the Dobunni. Chris Rudd September list.                                                                                                         1.8.05