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

Catuvellauni Addedomaros c. 45-25 BC Floral Spiral type Gold Stater

Rare

ABC 2511, 17mm, 5.48g

Obverse – Back-to-back crescents with arcs at the points, pellets between crescent arms, projecting chevron (three or five lines) and pellet design inside, on plain field.

Reverse – Small annulate horse right with mane, neck either solid or of short upturned bars, and spindly legs. Spiral sun (wheel-like clockwise whorl) above. Branch (frond) below. Ringed pellet in front.  AĐĐEDOMAROS inscription around.

Provenance

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

Spink FPL April 1996, no 1406. Seaby COE Plate coin 1999-2026 (S202)  VA1635-1

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.