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Silver Unit - Cunobelin Cunobelinus Plant
| Issuer | Catuvellauni and Trinovantes tribes (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 20-43 |
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| Reference(s) | ABC#2906 , Sp#309 |
| Obverse description | A stylised multi-branched plant with budding terminals, enclosed within a plain inner circle, occupies the central field. The plant rises from a single basal pellet and fans outward symmetrically, rendered in the distinctive Celtic schematic style. The royal name of Cunobelin is divided either side of the plant as a split legend. The entire design is framed by a prominent pellet border encircling the inner circle. |
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| Mintage | ND (20-43) |
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Cunobelinus — the historical figure behind Shakespeare's Cymbeline — ruled from Camulodunum (modern Colchester) and controlled more of southeastern Britain than any previous Iron Age king. His coinage output was prolific by the standards of Late Iron Age Britain, yet the silver units remain scarcer than his gold staters simply because silver circulated harder and at lower denominational prestige. ABC 2906 belongs to a period when Roman trade goods, wine amphorae, and diplomatic contact with Augustus and Tiberius were actively reshaping what it meant to issue coinage in Britain at all.
The Roman invasion of 43 AD under Claudius effectively ended this tradition within years of the last strikes.