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Gold Stater - Vepo Vepo Ring Pellet
| Issuer | Corieltauvi tribe (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 10-43 |
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| Weight | 5.4 g |
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| Obverse description | Abstracted Celtic design in the Late Iron Age tradition, featuring a stylised wreath or ring motif rendered as concentric curved lines with a central pellet-in-ring device occupying the upper field. The design is characteristically non-figural, composed of flowing curvilinear elements arranged around the central annulet. Two prominent pellet-in-ring symbols are visible, one in the upper left and one in the lower right of the flan, connected by diagonal ridged lines. The overall composition reflects the highly stylised abstraction of earlier Gallo-Belgic stater prototypes as adapted by Corieltauvian die-cutters. The flan is irregular and slightly convex, typical of hand-struck pre-Roman British coinage. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Corieltauvi occupied a broad territory across what is now Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, and Nottinghamshire, and their coinage is unusual among British tribes for frequently carrying paired names — interpreted by most scholars as joint rulers or successive magistrates rather than a single king. "Vepo" and its associated name on this stater remain only partially understood; no Roman source names a Corieltauvian ruler by this title, leaving the identification built entirely from the numismatic record itself. The tribe submitted to Rome in 43 AD without recorded military resistance.