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Gold Stater - Vepo Vepo Triadic
| Issuer | Corieltauvi tribe (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 10-43 |
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| Weight | 5.4 g |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Corieltauvi occupied a large territory across what is now Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, and Leicestershire, and their coinage is distinctive among British Celtic issues for frequently bearing paired names — interpreted by most scholars as joint magistrates or co-rulers rather than sequential reigns. "Vepo Vepo" represents the same name appearing twice, a triadic formula whose precise political meaning remains unresolved. Whether this denotes a single individual, a dynastic repetition, or a ritual naming convention has been debated since Mack's original classification.
Production was centered somewhere in the East Midlands, likely near modern Leicester. These late issues were struck within a generation of Claudian conquest in 43 AD.