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Gold Stater - Lat Ison Lat Ison Box
| Issuer | Corieltauvi tribe (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 40-47 |
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| Value | Stater (1) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A lunate horse prances to the right, rendered in the schematic Celtic tradition with a large, open circular head and a mane composed of individual pellets. Three pellets are positioned beneath the horse's head, a recurrent decorative and possibly symbolic device on Corieltauvian issues. The tribal inscription is distributed across the field within a rectangular box above the horse's back, with the remaining letters continued below in reversed and inverted orientation, reading (I)SO NV in fragmented form. The overall composition exhibits the stylised, abstract treatment of the horse motif characteristic of British Iron Age coinage in the final decades before the Roman conquest. |
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The Corieltauvi occupied a substantial territory across what is now Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, and Nottinghamshire, and their coinage is unusual among British Celtic issues for frequently displaying paired names — interpreted by most specialists as joint rulers or magistrates rather than a single monarch. "Lat Ison" follows this pattern. The tribe submitted to Rome under Claudius following the invasion of 43 AD, making issues from this terminal phase of their independent coinage among the last struck before Roman provincial economics displaced native gold entirely.