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Stater - Dubnovellaunos Sunburst

Issuer Cantii tribe (Celtic Britain)
Year 30 BC - 10 BC
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Shape Round (irregular)
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Reverse script Latin
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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.

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