Bronze Unit - Dubnovellaunos Lion Box

Dubnovellaunos is one of the few pre-Roman British rulers whose name appears on coinage and can be tentatively cross-referenced with Roman documentary sources — Dio Cassius records a British king of that name sending submission to Augustus, likely around 5–7 AD. Whether the coin's issuer and that suppliant king are the same individual remains genuinely contested. The Cantii occupied present-day Kent, the first significant territory encountered by Caesar during his 55 and 54 BC expeditions, which may explain why their ruling class adopted struck coinage with unusual speed relative to more interior tribes.