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Silver Unit - Dias Dias Saltire
| Issuer | Catuvellauni and Trinovantes tribes (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 1-10 |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse description | Irregular flan displaying a prominent central saltire (diagonal cross) formed by incised lines dividing the field into four quadrants, each containing stylised Celtic decorative elements. A small pellet or annulet motif appears at the intersection of the cross arms, while curved linear ornaments radiate outward toward the coin's periphery. The surrounding field is animated with flowing, sinuous lines characteristic of Late Iron Age Celtic artistic convention. The design is executed in low relief with a flat, unbordered field typical of hammered silver units of this period. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Catuvellauni and Trinovantes occupied a complicated political relationship in the decades surrounding the Roman conquest — the former having absorbed the latter under Cunobelin's father Tasciovanus, then Cunobelin himself. Coins attributed to this transitional tribal grouping are difficult to assign with confidence to a single ruler or mint site, and "Dias" remains a figure whose identity is debated: possibly a moneyer, possibly a sub-king, almost certainly not the issuing authority in any sovereign sense.
Van Arsdell 1879 is among the scarcer attributions in the late Celtic British sequence.