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Description: | Philip de Jersey comments: Despite its rather unattractive appearance, this is an extremely interesting coin. It is only the third known example of a very late silver unit of Cunobelin, which I included in the article on Cunobelin's silver in Britannia 32 (2001). It is type F5 in there. As well as the example I listed (and illustrated) I have seen another one since, but they are the only others I know of. As such it is just the sort of thing that the BM (if they had any money) or a local museum ought to snap up, given the opportunity. I suspect it might clean up quite well. Given the late date of this type - it is possible that the obverse might have been copied from a coin of Caligula, thus placing it after c. 37 AD - it seems on the face of it unlikely that it was associated with the two Gallo-Belgic staters, presumably deposited about 50 BC.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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