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Bronze Unit - Dubnovellaunos Boar Horseman
| Issuer | Cantii tribe (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 30 BC - 10 BC |
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| Weight | 2.3 g |
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| Obverse description | A boar advancing to the left occupies the central field, rendered in the stylised Celtic artistic tradition with emphatic bristles along the spine and a prominent snout. A partial Latin legend, reading DVBNOV, is distributed around the periphery of the flan. The surfaces display characteristic patination and flan irregularities consistent with hand-struck Celtic coinage of the late Iron Age period. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Dubnovellaunos ruled as a king of the Cantii in southeastern Britain during a period of intensifying contact with Rome — his name appears not only on coins but in Augustus's own Res Gestae, which records that a British king of that name sent envoys to the emperor. Whether this is the same Dubnovellaunos or a Trinovantian ruler of identical name remains genuinely unresolved among specialists.
ABC 351 is among the scarcer struck bronzes attributable to this reign, with find concentrations clustering in Kent.