Catuvellauni Dias c. AD 1-10 Dias Centaur Bronze Unit Scarce

Name: Catuvellauni Dias c. AD 1-10 Dias Centaur Bronze Unit *Scarce*
SKU: IAC402
Price: 3250.00 GBP
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£3,250.00

Code: IAC402

Catuvellauni Dias c. AD 1-10 Dias Centaur Bronze Unit

Scarce

ABC 2748 (plate coin), 15mm, 1.44g

Obverse

Bearded head of Hercules right, short hair. TASC DIAS inscription around.

Reverse

Centaur right, playing pipes. Crescent above. Ring in front. VIR inscription below.

Mint

Verlamion, modern-day St Albans, United Kingdom (circa 20 BC – AD 43)

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Comments

Evans: VII.7 (1864, p. 256, pl. VII).
Evans: XXI.11 (1890, p. 549, pl. XXI).

Van Arsdell Classification: Trinovantian R, Uncertain Dynastic Issues, The “Interregnum”, Coins Inscribed DIAS. Van Arsdell lists two variants, VA 1882 – 01 with the Centaur, and VA 1882 – 03 which features a horse rather than a Centaur. He doesn’t illustrate the horse and presumably it may in fact be a mis-identified Cantaur.

Tasciovanos is thought to have been related to Rues, Andoco and Dias(su). Sills believes the high zinc content of bronze coins of Tasciovanos (ABC 2688, ABC 2691, ABC 2712), Andoco (ABC 2727) and Diassu (ABC 2748, ABC 2751) come from a shipment of old Augustan coinage, dating them to several years after 18BC, but significantly before Cunobelin’s bronzes which do not contain high levels of zinc. Along with stylistic elements, this puts them before Tasciovanos’s third coinage.

Provenance

This coin is from The London Collection of Ancient British Coins. For more information click here: The London Collection – Silbury Coins : Silbury Coins.

Auctiones A G 27, lot 492 (December 1996) VA1882-1

This coin comes with a previous label.

Dias (c. AD 1–10?)

Another rare North Thames issuer who seems to sit somewhere in the early 1st century AD is Dias. He appears to have never struck any gold, but restricted himself to silver and bronze issues. Like Andoco, his preference seems to have been for obverses depicting male busts in profile – though there are some exceptions here. The presence of ‘VIR’ or ‘VER’ inscribed on some of his coins suggests they were struck at Verlamion.

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