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Gold Stater - Vepo Vepocunavos
| Issuer | Corieltauvi tribe (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 10-43 |
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| Currency | Stater |
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| Obverse description | Stylised Apollo-wreath design in the Corieltauvian tradition, bisected horizontally by a plain bar terminating in a crescent at each end. A beaded rosette composed of a ring of pellets occupies each cusp formed by the crescents. The wreath motif fills the field, with brick-shaped leaves arranged so that their inner edges face downward above the bar and upward below it. A vertical row of three small crosses runs along the centre of the design, and a dolphin-like symbol appears in each of the four angles between the bar and the wreath. |
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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.