Silver Minim - Verica Running Dog

Verica ruled the Atrebates in the decades immediately before the Claudian invasion of 43 AD, and his expulsion by a rival — likely Caratacus — is cited by Roman sources as one of the pretexts Claudius used to justify the conquest of Britain. These tiny fractional pieces circulated in a kingdom already deeply entangled with Roman trade networks, and the stylistic influence is unmistakable even without describing the imagery. ABC 1304 is among the smallest struck coins produced in pre-Roman Britain, with surviving examples frequently showing die misalignment given the near-impossibility of centering a 9mm flan consistently at volume.