Regini & Atrebates Epaticcus c. AD 20-40 Epaticcus Mini Pegasus Silver Minim *Excessively Rare*

Regini & Atrebates Epaticcus c. AD 20-40 Epaticcus Mini Pegasus Silver Minim

Excessively rare

ABC 1373

9mm, 0.22g

 

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 61, no 97 (2002). Cotswold coll. CCI 01.1618

This coin comes with a previous label.

 

Epatticus (c. AD 20–40?)

Towards the end of Verica’s rule, it appears to be the case that the Trinovantes and Catavellaunii, under Cunobelin’s guiding hand, began making inroads into other areas of southern Britain. The territory of the Atrebates was just one of these, with Cunobelin’s brother or half-brother Epatticus apparently leading the charge here. Although Epatticus did not manage to conquer all their holdings, coin distributions suggest his dominion extended over a large part of Atrebatic territory by c. AD 25, comprising a broad arc of land running from Chichester in the south to Swindon in the north. Most of these were probably struck at the historic regional capital of Calleva Atrebatum. Despite his successes, upon Epaticcus’s death, somewhere around AD 35, much of the Atrebatic territory taken by him was lost. Epatticus’ coins include some beautiful types, including impressive gold staters where he is styled as ‘TASC[IOVANVS] F[ILIVS]’ – son of Tasciovanus. Much more common (and affordable, for the Celtic collector!) are his silver units of the so-called ‘Epatticus Eagle’ type (ABC 1346/BMC 2024–93), which depicts a lionskin adorned Hercules on its obverse face.