Silver Minim - Commios Commios Moon Head

Commios was, by any measure, an exceptional figure in late Iron Age Britain — a Gaulish chieftain installed as king of the Atrebates by Julius Caesar himself, who later turned against Rome and fled to Britain following a failed assassination attempt against him by Roman officers during the Gallic Wars. His subsequent British coinage represents one of the few instances where a named individual from Caesar's own written accounts can be directly connected to surviving numismatic material.

Minims of this type are among the smallest coins produced in pre-Roman Britain, struck at weights that challenge even careful handling. The moon-head series is attributed to his later reign, after the break with Rome was complete.