Gold Plated Stater - Cunobelin Cunobelinus Plastic B Type Contemporary Counterfeit

Contemporary counterfeits of Cunobelinus staters are well-documented and circulated alongside official issues during his reign — the longest of any recorded pre-Roman British ruler, spanning roughly four decades. These plated pieces, sometimes called "fourrées" in the broader ancient coinage literature, were not necessarily the work of criminal operations; in a monetary environment without centralised enforcement, locally produced imitations likely passed without controversy in everyday exchange.

The Plastic B classification places this within a specific die-linked stylistic group. Cunobelinus ruled from Camulodunum — modern Colchester — which Shakespeare later immortalised as Cymbeline.