Catuvellauni Addedomaros c. 45–25 BC Spiral Gold Stater
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Catuvellauni Addedomaros c. 45–25 BC Spiral Gold Stater
Six-armed wreath spiral, arms formed from short bars, in centre three linear crescents filled with five lines. Border of alternating pellets and ringed pellets.
Horse right, two oversized ears, pellet mane, single-strand tail. Pellet line in front of neck and breast. Cornucopia below. Three horse muzzles and inscription above. Ringed pellet in front and below tail.
ABC 2517; 18mm, 5.63g
Evans: XIV.5 (1864, p. 370, pl. XIV).
Evans: XIV.6 (1864, p. 371, pl. XIV).
Van Arsdell Classification: Trinovantian J, Earlier Dynastic Issues, Addedomaros Second Coinage.
Sills DK 488 (26 obverse, 52 reverse dies): North Thames Coinage; Type: Addedomaros; Staters: Class 3 – Spiral. By far the biggest Addedomaros stater issue but issued over a relatively short time. Crescents and horse come from Crescents Cross (ABC 2514). The muzzles might come from Cantian Ribbon Muzzles (ABC 183). The inscription is further shortened. The equivalent quarter is the Cruciform (ABC 2529).
Addedomaros could be Trinovantian or Catuvellaunian, or a ruler of both. His staters are similar to the Essex Banded, north-eastern coins with Cantian influence. They follow the sequence Shell – Crescent Cross – Spiral. The frond on Addedomaros Shell and coins of Dubnovellaunos in Essex and Tasciovanos may be a family emblem.
Sills chronology: Gallo-Belgic Ca – British G (Early Clacton) / Aa Westerham – British La (Whaddon Chase) – British Lb (Westbury) – Addedomaros – Dubnovellaunos – Tasciovanos.
Provenance
This coin is from The London Collection of Ancient British Coins. For more information click here: The London Collection – Silbury Coins : Silbury Coins
C Rudd PT, no 1371, April 1994 VA 1620-1
This coin comes with a previous label.
Addedomaros (c. 45–25/10 BC?)
Addedomaros appears to have been the first ruler in the north Thames sequence to place his name upon coins, perhaps a contemporary of his southern counterpart, Commios. His earliest coins, probably struck during the earlier 30s BC, are intriguingly of very similar general appearance to the uninscribed ‘Wonersh’ staters of the Atrebates – though their reverses bear a variation on the Latin inscription ‘ADDEDIIDOM’ (ABC 2514/BMC 2390–94). Some coins attributed to Addedomaros have been undertaken on stylistic grounds rather than their explicitly bearing his name, such as the increasingly common ‘Addedomaros flower’ quarter staters (ABC 2526/BMC 2416). His coins are generally found in Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Essex, though a number were found in the recent ‘Near Blythburgh’ hoard, buried in north east Suffolk. He is potentially the occupant of the so-called ‘Lexden tumulus’, a high-status Late Iron Age barrow burial from near Colchester, dating c. 15–10 BC. Amongst other things, the tomb contained a silver medal depicting the Roman emperor Augustus, a table and pieces of monumental statuary in bronze – suggesting its occupant was well engaged with trade networks and contacts from the Mediterranean world.
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