Catalog
Stater 'Dobunnic D' - Antedios
| Issuer | Dobunni tribe |
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| Year | 10 BC - 10 AD |
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| Value | Gold Stater (1) |
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| Obverse description | Highly stylised, abstract design characteristic of Late Iron Age British Celtic coinage. The central motif consists of a prominent vertical spine or branch element composed of a central stalk with symmetrically arranged horizontal bars terminating in pellets, suggestive of a highly schematised corn-ear or tree motif. A single pellet appears at the base of the design. The surrounding field is plain, consistent with the Dobunnic series. The flan is irregular and slightly convex. |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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Antedios is one of the few named Dobunnic rulers whose coinage can be placed with reasonable confidence in the historical record, though the tribe left no written account of its own governance. The Dobunni occupied the Severn Valley and Cotswold region and appear to have maintained a degree of political independence even as Roman military pressure mounted in the decades surrounding the conquest of 43 AD. Whether Antedios ruled before or after that watershed remains debated — his name appears nowhere in Roman sources, making the coins themselves the sole evidence of his authority.
The 'Dobunnic D' classification groups several die-linked varieties, referenced across both Mack and Van Arsdell with overlapping but non-identical assignments.