Corieltavi Volisios Dumnocoveros c. AD 35-40 Volisios Dumnocoveros Silver Half Unit *Extremely Rare*

Corieltavi Volisios Dumnocoveros c. AD 35-40 Volisios Dumnocoveros Silver Half Unit

Extremely Rare

ABC 1986 (plate coin), 13mm, 0.45g

Obverse

VOLI SIOS inscription in two lines in two panels. Traces of vertical wreath below.

Reverse

Horse right, double upper front legs. Pellet below tail. DVM N OCO VE inscription above and continued below head, chest and attached to rear leg (ligate).

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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 March 1994, no 1276 ABC Plate coin  VA984-1

This coin comes with a previous label.

 

VOLISIOS DVMNOCOVEROS

Another issuer late in the Corieltavian sequence is that of ‘VOLISIOS DVMNOCOVEROS’, whose origins remain frustratingly unclear. If this is the name of two individuals, it could be that ‘VOLISIOS’ overlapped with ‘DVMNOCOVEROS’ – hence the placement of both names upon coinage. As with other literate named ‘issuers’ on Corieltavian coins, these were probably struck relatively shortly before the Claudian invasion.