Silver Unit - Cunobelin Cunobelinus Hercules

Cunobelinus ruled from Camulodunum — modern Colchester — for roughly four decades, the longest reign of any recorded British king before the Claudian invasion of 43 AD. Shakespeare knew him as Cymbeline. His silver units are the smallest denomination in a coinage system that grew increasingly sophisticated under his rule, reflecting sustained continental trade and a mint operation that was, by Iron Age British standards, genuinely prolific. ABC 2864 is among the later issues of his reign, struck in the years immediately preceding the Roman conquest that ended the Catuvellaunian kingdom entirely.