Silver Unit Cotswold Eagle / Corio Head Type Class D

The Dobunni occupied the Severn Valley and surrounding limestone uplands, their territory centered roughly on what is now Gloucestershire. This particular class within the coinage sequence has been associated with a phase of increasing internal differentiation among Dobunnic issues — scholars have used stylistic drift across classes to argue for multiple issuing authorities or sub-tribal factions operating within the same broad political unit, though no named ruler appears on this type.

At under 1.2 grams, these units had already shed considerable weight from earlier Dobunnic silver, reflecting broader bullion pressures across late Iron Age Britain as Roman commercial networks began absorbing regional metal supplies.