Gold Stater - Cunobelin Cunobelinus Wild Heart

Cunobelin — Shakespeare's Cymbeline — ruled from Camulodunum (modern Colchester) as the most powerful king in pre-Roman Britain, controlling enough of the southeast that Suetonius called his son Adminius's defection to Rome a diplomatic coup worth celebrating. This stater type is attributed to the "Wild" series by the distinctive treatment of the horse, a stylistic flourish that distinguishes it from the more regularized late issues as Cunobelin's mint output expanded significantly in his final decades.

The ABC 2780 classification places this among the later emissions, struck perhaps a generation before Claudius's invasion of 43 AD rendered the entire native coinage obsolete almost overnight.