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Bronze Unit - Cunobelin Cunobelinus Metalworker
| Issuer | Catuvellauni and Trinovantes tribes (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 20-43 |
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| Value | Bronze Unit |
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| Reverse description | A metalworker seated to the right, depicted in profile, engaged in hammering a vase or vessel set before him; his hair is gathered in a bun at the rear of the head and he wears a broad-brimmed hat. The legend TASCIO appears in the field behind the figure, identifying him as son of Tasciovanos. The type is enclosed within a pellet border, a characteristic decorative feature of Catuvellaunian bronze coinage of this period. |
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| Mintage | ND (20-43) |
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Cunobelin ruled from Camulodunum — modern Colchester — for roughly four decades, making him the longest-reigning British king of the late Iron Age and the historical figure Shakespeare loosely adapted into Cymbeline. His bronze series, issued well after his gold and silver, reached a population that rarely handled coined money at all; bronze coinage in pre-Roman Britain was always the last denomination to develop, and its appearance signals a monetizing economy on the cusp of Roman absorption. The conquest came in 43 AD, almost certainly within years of this coin's last circulation.