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Description: | British Eastern (Trinovanties) gold stater of Cunobelin, dating circa 40 AD. Report by Dr P.R. Sealey, Colchester Museum, March 2010:The metal of the coin is gold. It weighs 5.37 grammes, and has axes of 16.5 and 16.6 millimetres. The obverse has an ear of corn with central stalk dividing the legend CAM. On the reverse there is a rearing horse to right with the legend CVNO on a straight exergual line. Half of the edge of the reverse has neat beading. Both dies were struck centrally on the coin blank such that both dies have been captured more or less in their entirety. Discussion: The coin belongs to the last phase of the coinage of Cunobelin, the so-called classic phase (Allen 1975, 2-3, pl. 5 nos 120-48, pl.7 no.210). That would put the date of the coin somewhere in the years approaching c. AD 40. The weight of the coin conforms exactly to the average weight for all classes of Cunobelin stater subsequent to the initial (and slightly heavier) biga series (Williams 2005, 124). Both legends are on different alignments suggesting that in this case the hinged dies sometimes used on the classic series of Cunobelin had not been used for this particular issue (Edwards and Dennis 2006, 253). References Allen, D.F., 1975. 'Cunobelin's gold', Britannia 6, 1-19 Edwards, G. and Dennis, M., 2006. 'The Silsden hoard: discovery, investigation and new interpretations', in P. de Jersey (ed.), Celtic Coinage: New Discoveries, New Discussion (British Archaeological Reports, International Series 1532) (Oxford), 249-60 Williams, J.H.C., 2005. 'Stability and variety in the weight-standards of Cunobelin's precious metal coinage', Numis. Chron. 165, 125-8
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