Silver Minim - Epaticcus Dog and Tree

Epaticcus ruled the Atrebates in the decades immediately before the Claudian invasion of 43 AD, steadily pushing eastward into Catuvellauni territory — a territorial aggression that may well have contributed to the political instability Rome later cited as justification for intervention. Minims of this type are fractional issues of genuinely uncertain function; at 0.2g, their practical use in daily exchange is questionable, and some scholars favor a votive or prestige interpretation.

The ABC 1361 attribution places this firmly within a small, well-documented group distinguishable from related Atrebatic minims by die characteristics recorded across the BMC Iron Age series entries 2371–2374.