Silver Minim - Verica Verica Hand

Verica ruled the Atrebates in the early first century AD as a client king of Rome, and his coinage reflects that relationship directly — Latin titulature, Romanised iconography, and a mint output that tracks the political turbulence of a tribe caught between Roman ambition and internal dynastic rivalry. His eventual expulsion, likely by Caratacus of the Catuvellauni around 40–43 AD, is widely considered one of the pretexts Claudius used to justify the invasion of 43 AD. Minims like this were the fractional workhorses of that political moment, struck at weights that required considerable die-cutting skill at a barely functional scale.