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Gold Stater - Verica Vine Leaf Prancing Horse

Issuer Atrebates and Regini tribes (Celtic Britain)
Year 25-35
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Value Stater (1)
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Reverse script Latin
Reverse lettering C O F
(Translation: Son of Commios.)
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Verica ruled the Atrebates as a client king of Rome, a political arrangement that shaped everything about his coinage — the vine leaf motif borrowed directly from Roman iconography, a deliberate signal of alliance at a moment when Cunobelinus of the Catuvellauni was steadily absorbing neighboring territories. Verica would eventually flee to Rome around 40 AD, his appeal to Claudius providing the formal pretext for the invasion of 43 AD.

The Van Arsdell 520-01 is among the better-documented of his stater types, recorded across a relatively consistent die corpus in Sills' analysis of Gallic War and related British gold.

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