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Bronze Unit - Dubnovellaunos Dubnovellaunos Centre Parting
| Issuer | Trinovantes tribe (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 30 BC - 25 BC |
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| Currency | Stater |
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| Reverse description | A stylised horse prancing left, depicted in the abstract Celtic manner characteristic of late Iron Age British coinage. Above and below the horse are elaborate decorative devices composed of pellet-filled circles and curvilinear elements. The field is populated with additional pellets and annulets, arranged to fill the flan in a manner consistent with Trinovantian artistic convention. The whole design reflects the degraded classical prototype ultimately derived from Macedonian stater prototypes. |
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| Mintage | ND (30 BC - 25 BC) |
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Dubnovellaunos ruled jointly over the Trinovantes and Catuvellauni at a moment when Augustus was consolidating Roman influence across northwestern Europe, and coin production in southeastern Britain was shifting — however fitfully — toward more organized dynastic expression. His name appears on both bronze and gold issues, making him one of the better-attested rulers of late Iron Age Britain despite leaving no written record of his reign. A Dubnovellaunos is listed among British kings who sent embassies to Augustus, recorded in the Res Gestae, though whether this refers to the same individual remains genuinely contested among specialists.