Catuvellauni Addedomaros c. 45-25 BC Addedomaros Floral Gold Quarter Stater *Rare*

Catuvellauni Addedomaros c. 45-25 BC Addedomaros Floral Gold Quarter Stater

Rare

ABC 2529, 13mm, 1.38g

Dark find patina, reverse detail extremely sharp.

Obverse

Flower formed from a cross of four triangular leaves around a ringed pellet with teardrop petals (rings) in each angle. Pellets at the end of each leaf. Beaded border around.

Reverse

Annulate horse right with beaded mane, short single-stranded tail, long legs, large single ear and ringed pellet on breast. Triple muzzle above. Pellet and ringed pellet below.

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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.

Nvmmorvm Auctiones (I Vecchi) 14, lot 106 (Feb 1999)  VA1623

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.