Trinovantes Dubnovellaunos c. 5 BC-AD 10 Dubnovellaunos V-Sign Silver Unit Very Rare

Name: Trinovantes Dubnovellaunos c. 5 BC-AD 10 Dubnovellaunos V-Sign Silver Unit *Very Rare*
SKU: IAC368
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Code: IAC368

Trinovantes Dubnovellaunos c. 5 BC-AD 10 Dubnovellaunos V-Sign Silver Unit

Very rare

ABC 2398, 14mm, 0.82g

Obverse

Head right, pellet-in-ring motif for eye, two pellets for lips, phallic nose, crescents for hair, beaded angle for hairline.

Reverse

Annulate horse left, elliptical ear, pellet-in-ring motif for head and on shoulder. Scissors motif above (two lines with ellipse ends and corded line ending in pellet-in-ring motif). Flower below. Ring below tail. Pellet near tail. Two pellets under head. Blundered DVBNOVALLAVNOS inscription around.

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Comments

Van Arsdell Classification: Trinovantian L, Earlier Dynastic Issues, Dubnovellaunus in Essex, Silver Coins.

Sills believes that both Dubnovellaunos’s silver coins, V-Sign and Scissors (ABC 2401), equate to his earliest gold, Annulate Head (ABC 2389) and A Type (Sills 537). V-Sign has the spelling Dubnovallaunos (with an A) and reversed Ns as the earlier staters, while the horse has an annulate head and body and sharply-angled legs. The petal rosette on V-Sign comes from Addedomaros’s Flower (ABC 2526). Scissors also has the same annulate horse, while the backwards-looking horse could come from Addedomaros’s Sudbury Horses (ABC 2535). The Crescent Head bronze (ABC 2410) equates with the silver.

Sills chronology: Gallo-Belgic Ca – British G (Early Clacton) / Aa Westerham – British La (Whaddon Chase) – British Lb (Westbury) – Addedomaros – Dubnovellaunos – Tasciovanos.

Dubnovellaunos was almost beyond doubt king of both the Trinovantes and Cantii. Around 7, at the end of his reign, he and Tincomarus of the Atrebates appeared in the res gestae as supplicants to Augustus, but it is not known whether that was king of the Trnovantes or Cantii at the time. He could not be the Dumnovellaunus of the Corieltauvi.

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 FPL 95, no 39 (2007). CCI 07.0536 VA1663

This coin comes with a previous label.

Dubnovellaunos (c. 10/5 BC–AD 10?)

Dubnovellaunos is an intriguing character within the Late Iron Age coin series, not least because (if the same person) his issues appear to have been struck and/or used in both Kent and Essex. However, his Kentish issues show much more variety, suggesting that he may well have begun his rule within the territory of the Cantiaci. Striking in gold, silver and bronze, it seems to be that he likely overlapped at least partially with the reign of Tasciovanos. One piece of evidence for this is provided by a small hoard from Toppesfield, Essex, which contained two staters of Tasciovanos alongside three staters and a quarter-stater of Dubnovellaunos. He may well be the ‘Dumnobellaunos’ referenced in Augustus’ Res Gestae, perhaps implying his acquiescence to Rome during the early 1st century AD.

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