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Gold Stater - Vepo Vepocunavos

Issuer Corieltauvi tribe (Celtic Britain)
Year 10-43
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Weight 4.81 g
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Reverse script Latin
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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 are unusual among British Iron Age tribes for issuing coins bearing paired names — likely indicating a system of joint rulership or co-magistracy that has no clear parallel among their southern contemporaries. Vepo and Vepocunavos may represent two individuals ruling simultaneously, though whether this reflects dynastic partnership or a sequential arrangement compressed onto a single issue remains unresolved.

Production ceased abruptly with the Claudian invasion of 43 AD, which extinguished Corieltauvian political autonomy within months.

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