Silver Unit - Cunobelin Cunobelinus Horse-Dog

Cunobelin — Shakespeare's Cymbeline — ruled from Camulodunum (Colchester) as the dominant power in southeastern Britain for roughly four decades, long enough that Augustus and Tiberius both received British exiles at their courts who had been displaced by his expansion. His coinage is unusually prolific by Iron Age British standards, suggesting something closer to a genuine monetary economy than most of his contemporaries managed.

The ABC 2852 type is among the smaller fractional silver issues in his series, likely functioning as small-change within a system where the gold stater handled larger transactions. Pliny the Elder noted Britain's silver resources; Cunobelin appears to have exploited them deliberately.