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Bronze Unit - Cunobelin Cunobelinus Pegasus Victory Right
| Issuer | Catuvellauni and Trinovantes tribes (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 10-20 |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Victory standing facing right, depicted full-length with large spread wings flanking the body and arms extended, holding a wreath or palm in the right hand. The figure is rendered in a bold, somewhat stylised Celtic interpretation of the classical Victory type, with the drapery reduced to schematic lines. The royal inscription CV to the left and NO to the right of the figure identifies the issuing king Cunobelin, the letters incuse in the field. |
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Cunobelin ruled from Camulodunum — modern Colchester — for roughly four decades, an unusually long and stable reign by Late Iron Age British standards. Shakespeare borrowed his name for Cymbeline, though the dramatic version bears little resemblance to the king who, by the early first century AD, controlled enough of southeastern Britain that Suetonius called him "king of the Britons." His coinage reflects genuine contact with the Roman world: imported imagery, a mint operating with something approaching systematic output, and bronze small change suggesting an economy comfortable with low-denomination exchange.