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Gold Stater - Verica Verica Warrior Daisy
| Issuer | Atrebates and Regini tribes (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 10-20 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Central rectangular tablet bearing the Latin legend COM·F, an abbreviation for Commios Filius meaning 'Son of Commios', rendered in bold relief characters. A pellet-in-ring device is positioned above the tablet and a second pellet-in-ring device below, serving as decorative field ornaments characteristic of late Celtic coinage. The surrounding field is plain and irregular in flan shape, consistent with hand-struck Celtic production of the early first century AD. The overall design reflects the Romanising influence on the Atrebatic dynastic coinage of Verica. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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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.