Bronze Unit - Cunobelin Cunobelinus Sitting Boar

Cunobelin — Shakespeare's Cymbeline — ruled from Camulodunum (modern Colchester) and controlled more of southeast Britain than any Celtic ruler before the Claudian invasion. His prolific bronze output served a genuine economic function, circulating through a trading network that already included Roman merchants operating out of Gaul. The boar type belongs to his mature coinage, issued when his kingdom was at its greatest territorial extent and Roman diplomatic recognition was, however uneasy, a political reality.

Camulodunum fell to Aulus Plautius in 43 AD, roughly two decades after these bronzes were struck.