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Silver Unit - Eastern North Thames Broadoak Head

Issuer Trinovantes tribe (Celtic Britain)
Year 55 BC - 45 BC
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Weight 1.1 g
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Edge Plain
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Mintage ND (55 BC - 45 BC)
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The Trinovantes occupied territory roughly corresponding to modern Essex and southern Suffolk, and by the mid-first century BC were under sustained pressure from the expanding Catuvellauni to the northwest. Caesar's two British expeditions — 55 and 54 BC — briefly disrupted tribal power structures across southeastern Britain, and the Trinovantes were among the tribes that submitted to him, seeking Roman backing against Cassivellaunus. Whether this unit circulated before or after that political realignment is impossible to say with certainty, but the dating places it squarely within that volatile decade.

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