Silver Minim - Verica Verica Star Box

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.