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Silver Minim - Verica Verica Mini Medusa
| Issuer | Atrebates and Regini tribes (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 10-20 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Reverse description | A schematic facing head of Medusa occupies the central field, rendered in the stylised Celtic manner with straight, radiating hair framing the face. The facial features — eyes, nose, and mouth — are depicted in a frontal, near-symmetrical arrangement characteristic of late Iron Age die work. The abbreviated legend VERI, identifying the issuing ruler Verica, appears below the bust. The overall composition is compact and boldly struck, consistent with the miniature format of the minim denomination. |
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| Mintage | ND (10-20) |
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Verica ruled the Atrebates in the decades immediately preceding the Claudian invasion of 43 AD, maintaining close ties with Rome — he may have been the British king whose appeal to Claudius provided the political pretext for that invasion. These tiny silver minims circulated in a kingdom already deeply Romanized in its coinage conventions, yet the types remain distinctly local in execution. The Medusa attribution here refers to a specific die type within the series, catalogued discretely by Van Arsdell precisely because Celtic die-cutters working at this scale produced enough variation to warrant individual classification at 0.24g.