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Gold Stater - Dubnovellaunos Two Stars
| Issuer | Trinovantes tribe (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 30 BC - 25 BC |
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| Diameter | 17 mm |
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| Reverse description | A naturalistic leaping horse depicted in left profile with extended fore and hind legs and a pellet-form mane, rendered in the refined Celtic naturalistic style associated with late Trinovantian coinage. A leafy arched branch occupies the area below the horse. A ringed pellet set within a pellet triangle appears above the horse, with a further ringed pellet below. Two six-pointed stars are positioned in the field, one before and one behind the horse. The inscription DVBNOVELLA, naming the issuing ruler Dubnovellaunos, is arranged around the reverse field. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Dubnovellaunos ruled jointly over the Trinovantes and, later, the Catuvellauni — a political arrangement so unstable that Roman sources, including a fragment preserved in Augustus's Res Gestae, record him as a British king who sought refuge at the imperial court, likely displaced by Cunobelinus sometime in the early first century AD. His coinage predates that exile by decades, placing these staters among the earliest attributable issues from the Essex-based Trinovantian heartland around Camulodunum.
The Sills classification tightened attribution of this type considerably from earlier VA references, separating it from superficially similar issues on die-link and find-spot evidence.