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Silver Minim - Verica Verica Star Box
| Issuer | Atrebates and Regini tribes (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 10-20 |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Reverse lettering | VI CO (Translation: Verica (Son of) Commios.) |
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| Mintage | ND (10-20) |
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Verica ruled the Atrebates during one of the most politically volatile periods of pre-Roman Britain, maintaining close ties with Rome — he appears in Latin sources as "Rex" on his larger coinage, an almost unprecedented claim for a British ruler. When he was eventually driven out by a rival faction around 42–43 AD, his appeal to Emperor Claudius is cited by ancient sources as a direct pretext for the Roman invasion of 43 AD. These minims, struck in the final decades before that invasion, circulated in a kingdom already deeply entangled with Roman commercial and political networks.