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Bronze Unit - Cunobelin Cunobelinus Bull Sacrifice

Issuer Catuvellauni and Trinovantes tribes (Celtic Britain)
Year 20-43
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Value Bronze Unit
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Obverse description A winged figure, rendered in the schematic Celtic artistic tradition, is depicted striding or leaping above a bull or bovine animal moving to the right, occupying the central field. The composition reflects a sacrificial or ritual scene consistent with Late Iron Age British iconography. The design is executed in bold low relief with characteristically abstract Celtic stylisation, with the winged motif rendered as radiating lines above the principal figure. The abbreviated legend CV NO appears in the lower field, referencing the royal name of Cunobelin. The flan is irregular and slightly scalloped at the periphery, typical of hammered bronze coinage of this period.
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Reverse lettering TASCI
(Translation: (Son of) Tasciovanos.)
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