Silver Unit - Cunobelin Cunobelinus Retro

Cunobelinus — Shakespeare's Cymbeline — ruled from Camulodunum (modern Colchester) and commanded the most powerful tribal confederation in pre-conquest Britain. His coinage is unusually prolific by Iron Age British standards, yet the retrograde inscriptions found on certain silver units like this type remain unexplained: whether scribal error, deliberate workshop convention, or the work of an engraver cutting dies as a mirror image remain open questions among specialists. Van Arsdell catalogued it separately precisely because the retrograde lettering is consistent enough across specimens to rule out simple mistake.