Gold Stater - Verica Aqueduct

Verica ruled the Atrebates in the decades immediately before the Claudian invasion of 43 AD, and his expulsion by Caratacus and the Catuvellaunian dynasty is recorded by Cassius Dio as one of the direct pretexts Rome used to justify that invasion. Whether Verica actively solicited Roman intervention or was simply convenient to their ambitions is still debated. His coinage is among the most Romanized of any pre-conquest British ruler — a deliberate political posture toward Rome rather than a provincial accident.

The "Aqueduct" type takes its name from the architectural motif on the reverse, an unusual departure that scholars attribute to Verica's time spent in or around Roman Gaul.