Catuvellauni and Trinovantes Cunobelinus c. AD 8-40 Wild Gold Stater *Scarce*

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Catuvellauni and Trinovantes Cunobelinus c. AD 8-40 Wild Gold Stater Scarce

Name: Catuvellauni and Trinovantes Cunobelinus c. AD 8-40 Wild Gold Stater *Scarce*
SKU: IAC406
Price: 2750.00 GBP
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Code: IAC406

Catuvellauni and Trinovantes Cunobelinus c. AD 8-40 Wild Gold Stater

Scarce

ABC 2777, 18mm, 5.42g

Obverse

Irregular corn ear (barley) with six (rarely five) pairs of grains and no central stalk. CA MV inscription to left and right. Stem springs from a short angled line or V-shape.

Reverse

Dumpy horse right, spiky mane, feathered tail, rounded dog-leg joint in second leg. Branch above. CVN O inscription below, sometimes with the round or ovoid O above the legs.

Mint

CAMV	Camulodunum, modern-day Colchester, United Kingdom

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Comments

Evans: IX.10 (1864, p. 301, pl. IX).

Van Arsdell Classification: Trinovantian V, Coinage of Cunobeline, Restoration Period (Heavy Staters), Wild Type Gold Coins. Van Arsdell lists variants:
VA 1931 – 05: No central stalk, pellet below A, pellet above M. No pellet in ring in front of horse. This is Sills DK 555 (horse without phallus, CVNO under horse) – there does not appear to be a pellet below A on Van Arsdell’s example or any coin.
VA 1931 – 07: No central stalk, pellet above M. Pellet in ring in front of horse. This is Sills DK 555 (horse with phallus, CVN under horse, O above the legs).

Rudd (ABC) ‘Wild’.

Sills Wild A, Rounded Leg (9 obverse, 20 reverse dies): North Thames Coinage; Type: Cunobelinus; Staters: Class 3b – Wild A, Rounded Leg. The angled line at the bottom of the stem is as on Verica’s Vine Leaf (Sills 366).

Sills DK 554: Thin barley ear, no pellets in obverse field (although many dies have flaws that look like pellets). Variant:
– CVN under the horse, O above the legs. This is Chris Rudd’s ‘High O’ (Chris Rudd List 143, 2 Nov 2015, lot 39).

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

Provenance

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

M Vosper PT, 07.02.2003. VA1931 var.

This coin comes with a previous label.

Cunobelin (c. AD 10–40)

Shakespeare’s Cymbeline, based on his extensive bronze coinage Cunobelin appears to have been a son of Tasciovanos – where he is often styled ‘CVNOBELINI TASCIOVANI F’ (Cunobelin, Son of Tasciovanos). Writing in the early 1st century AD, the Roman historian Suetonius erroneously refers to Cunobelin as ‘Brittanorum Rex’ – King of the Britons. While this may exaggerate his power and influence somewhat, it is evident that he was viewed by the Romans as a key figure within the region. He was potentially sponsored or endorsed in some way by Rome’s first emperor, Augustus. Indeed, like Verica, many of his coins (especially those of silver and bronze) show high levels of classical influence.

As a ruler in his own right, Cunobelin’s first act seems to have been to finish the task begun by his father, definitively exerting control over both Camulodunon and the Trinovantian territory surrounding it. Numismatic evidence for this can be found in the prolific quantities of gold staters and quarter-staters he struck at the settlement, which depict a corn-ear flanked by the inscription ‘CAMV’. Having solidified his holdings north of the Thames, it seems that Cunobelin extended his influence into Kent. Indeed, many of his coins are found there, as are those of his probable son – Adminius (Amminus). The subsequent power vacuum caused by his death in AD 40, followed by a brief period of instability which seems to have manifested across much of eastern and southern Britain, would be quickly filled following the Claudian invasion of AD 43 – an event which changed Britain forever.

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