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Silver Minim - Verica Verica Horn of Plenty
| Issuer | Atrebates and Regini tribes (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 25-35 |
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| Weight | 0.3 g |
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| Obverse description | A cornucopia (horn of plenty) depicted centrally, its open end oriented upward with three pellets issuing from the mouth. The abbreviated royal inscription COM to the left and VER to the right flanks the central device, denoting the issuing authority of Verica of the Atrebates. The entire design is contained within a pellet border, characteristic of Late Iron Age British coinage. |
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| Obverse lettering | COM - VER |
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Verica ruled the Atrebates in the decades immediately before the Claudian invasion of 43 AD, and his coinage — including these tiny silver minims — is among the clearest numismatic evidence of deep Roman cultural penetration into southern Britain before a single legion crossed the Channel. His father Commius had fled Caesar's Gaul as an enemy of Rome; Verica styled himself REX on his coins and likely died in Rome as a client king, possibly the very man whose appeal to Claudius provided the political justification for the conquest itself.