Gold Stater - Eisu Eisu Ricu

The Dobunni occupied a substantial territory in what is now Gloucestershire and surrounding counties, and by the early first century AD their coinage had become among the most sophisticated of any British tribe — gold staters naming individual rulers circulated as instruments of political authority in a region that maintained trade contact with Gaulish networks. The "Eisu Eisu Ricu" inscription places this stater among a small group of late Dobunnic issues where the ruler's name appears with the title "ricu," a Brittonic term for king or ruler, which is rare enough in the epigraphic record to attract continued debate among Celtic scholars.

The tribe surrendered to Aulus Plautius during the Claudian invasion of 43 AD, ending Dobunnic coinage production entirely.