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Gold 1/4 Stater - Verica Rearing Horse VI Pellets
| Issuer | Atrebates and Regini tribes (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 10-20 |
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| Value | 1/4 Stater |
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| Reverse description | A horse rearing to the right, rendered in the schematic Celtic style typical of Atrebatic coinage of the early 1st century AD. A pellet diamond motif is placed beneath the horse's raised forelegs. The abbreviated legend VI appears above the horse in the field, referencing the issuer Verica. A straight exergual line with pellet terminations at each end divides the lower field, all within an irregular beaded border. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Verica ruled the Atrebates in the years immediately preceding the Claudian invasion of 43 AD, and Roman sources name him directly as a catalyst for it — his expulsion by Caratacus of the Catuvellauni prompted him to appeal personally to Claudius for military intervention. Whether that appeal was decisive or merely convenient for Roman ambitions is still debated, but Verica's coinage survives as the last independent monetary output of his tribe before Roman provincial administration rendered it obsolete. This quarter stater, struck in the final decade before that rupture, circulated in a kingdom already deeply entangled with Roman trade networks and political dependencies.