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Stater - Dubnovellaunos Sunburst
| Issuer | Cantii tribe (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 30 BC - 10 BC |
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| Currency | Stater |
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| Obverse description | Uninscribed obverse with a plain, nearly featureless gold field, characteristic of the late Cantian stater series. A single raised horizontal band traverses the centre of the flan, creating a subtle ridge across the otherwise smooth surface. The flan itself is slightly irregular in outline, as typical of hand-struck Celtic coinage of this period. No figural motif, legend, or additional decorative element is present on this face. |
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| Mintage | ND (30 BC - 10 BC) |
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Dubnovellaunos ruled in Kent during a period when Roman influence was creeping northward following Caesar's expeditions, and the increasingly abstract coinage of the Cantii reflects not incompetence but deliberate stylistic drift — a regional aesthetic that diverged sharply from the more Romanized output of neighboring tribes. Whether Dubnovellaunos is the same ruler later recorded on coins struck in Essex, and mentioned by name in Augustus's Res Gestae as a British king who sought imperial patronage, remains one of the genuinely unresolved questions in Iron Age numismatics.