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| Issuer | Atrebates and Regini tribes (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 10-20 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | COM.F (Translation: Son of Commios.) |
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Verica ruled the Atrebates during a period of intense dynastic competition and growing Roman commercial influence in southern Britain. His coins — this stater among them — were struck in the decade or so before the Claudian invasion of 43 AD, by which point Verica had been expelled from his kingdom by the Catuvellauni under Caratacus and Togodumnus. Ancient sources, including Cassius Dio, record that Verica appealed directly to Claudius for military intervention — making him, plausibly, one of the human triggers for the Roman conquest of Britain.