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Bronze Unit - Andoco Andoco Sheep

Issuer Catuvellauni and Trinovantes tribes (Celtic Britain)
Year 20 BC - 1 BC
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Diameter 15 mm
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Obverse script Latin
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Mintage ND (20 BC - 1 BC)
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Andoco is one of the more obscure rulers attested only through his coinage — no Roman or British literary source names him, and his precise relationship to the Catuvellauni dynastic sequence remains unresolved. He was likely a minor king or sub-king operating in the years before the Catuvellaunian consolidation under Tasciovanus and later Cunobelinus, whose dominance would eventually crowd out exactly this kind of regional issuer.

ABC 2733 is among the rarer die-linked bronzes from this tribal grouping, with findspot evidence clustering in Hertfordshire and Essex.