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Silver Unit - Vepo Vepo Rosette
| Issuer | Corieltauvi tribe (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 10-43 |
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| Value | Silver Unit |
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| Reverse lettering | VEP(O) COR F (Translation: Vepocomes Son of Cor.) |
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| Mintage | ND (10-43) |
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The Corieltauvi occupied a large territory across what is now Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, and Nottinghamshire, and their coinage is unusual among British tribal issues for frequently carrying paired names — likely joint rulers, though whether these represent co-regency, sequential authority, or dynastic association remains unresolved. Vepo and Rosette appear together on this type, placing it among the later Corieltauvi issues as the tribe approached Roman contact. Struck in the final decades before the Claudian invasion of 43 AD, coins of this type were produced in a political environment already feeling Roman economic pressure filtering through client kingdoms to the south.