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Silver Unit - Cunobelin Cunobelinus Winged Victory
| Issuer | Catuvellauni and Trinovantes tribes (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 20-43 |
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| Reference(s) | ABC#2882 , Sp#316 , BMC Iron#1883 |
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| Obverse lettering | CVNO - BELINVS (Translation: Cunobelin.) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Cunobelinus — Shakespeare's Cymbeline — ruled from Camulodunum (modern Colchester) as the dominant king in pre-conquest southern Britain, a reign so consequential that Suetonius records his death as the immediate political trigger for Claudius's invasion of 43 AD. His sons' misrule of the kingdom afterward gave Rome the pretext it needed. This silver unit belongs to the final decades of independent Catuvellaunian power.
The winged victory type draws on continental Gaulish coin traditions filtered through decades of cross-channel trade contact, not direct Roman imitation — a distinction that matters for understanding how Belgic influence moved into Britain well before legions did.