Stater 'Dobunnic D' - Antedios

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.