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Gold Stater - Cunobelinus Wild A Central Stalk
| Issuer | Catuvellauni and Trinovantes tribes (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 10-20 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A stylised horse prancing to the left in the characteristic Celtic curvilinear manner, its body rendered in bold, rounded forms with an arched neck and flowing mane indicated by short striations. A palm branch or vegetation element appears above and behind the horse in the upper field, while the legend CVNO is placed in the lower field below the horse, identifying the issuing ruler Cunobelinus. Decorative subsidiary elements, including pellets and annulate motifs, appear in the field around the horse depending on die variety. The composition reflects the Late Iron Age British coinage tradition derived ultimately from Macedonian prototype staters. |
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Cunobelinus ruled from Camulodunum — modern Colchester — for roughly four decades, long enough that Shakespeare eventually borrowed his name for Cymbeline. This stater belongs to his "Wild" series, so called by collectors to distinguish the increasingly abstracted output of his later issues from the more controlled early types. The Central Stalk variety is defined by a specific arrangement of the reverse field elements and is catalogued discretely by Sills precisely because Celtic die studies have demonstrated these are not random stylistic drift but deliberate, identifiable production groups.
Cunobelinus was the dominant political force in southeast Britain immediately before the Claudian invasion of 43 AD.