Bronze Unit - Amminus Head Right

Amminus was a son of Cunobelinus — the king Shakespeare loosely immortalized as Cymbeline — and appears to have controlled Cantium (modern Kent) as a subordinate ruler before being expelled, likely by his brothers, sometime around 40 AD. His flight to Rome and appeal to Emperor Caligula is recorded by Suetonius, who notes with evident sarcasm that Caligula treated the exile's arrival as a major military triumph. These bronzes almost certainly predate that expulsion, making them the product of an extremely compressed window of autonomous authority in the southeast.