Gold Stater - Corio Corio Tree

The Dobunni occupied a territory centered on the modern Cotswolds, and their coinage sequence is one of the better-documented among British Celtic issues precisely because several types carry inscribed names — Corio among them. Whether these names denote kings, magistrates, or some other authority remains genuinely contested; the tribal structure of late Iron Age Britain didn't map neatly onto the coin-issuing hierarchies of Gaul or Rome. Corio is attested on only a small cluster of types, making the absolute chronology tight and the total surviving population correspondingly modest.