Bronze Unit - Dubnovellaunos Crescent Head

Features

Issuer	Trinovantes tribe (Celtic Britain)
King	Dubnovellaunus (circa 40-1 BC)
Type	Standard circulation coins
Years	30 BC - 25 BC
Value	Bronze Unit
Currency	Stater
Composition	Bronze
Weight	1.53 g
Diameter	15 mm
Shape	Round (irregular)
Technique	Hammered
Orientation	Variable alignment ↺
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 461761
References	ABC# 2410 Elizabeth Cottam, Philip de Jersey, Chris Rudd, John Sills; 2010. Ancient British Coins. Chris Rudd, Aylsham, United Kingdom. , Van Arsdell# 1665 Robert D. Van Arsdell; 1989. Celtic Coinage of Britain. Spink & Son, London, United Kingdom. , Sp# 212 Standard Catalogue of British Coins (37 volumes). , BMC Iron# 2461, 2462, 2463, 2464, 2465 Richard Hobbs; 1996. British Iron Age coins in the British Museum. British Museum, London, United Kingdom. , Mack# 277 Richard Paston Mack; 1975. The Coinage of Ancient Britain. Spink & Son, London, United Kingdom.

Series: Annulate

Obverse

Chubby-cheeked head right, pellet-in-ring for eye, two pellets for lips, phallic nose, crescents for hair, beaded angle for hairline, appears to have necklace or torc.

Reverse

Horse left. Radiate sun above. Branch below. Pellet below tail. Inscription above.

Script: Latin

Lettering: DV

Unabridged legend: Dubnovellaunos.

Comments

Evans: (1890, p. 476).

Allen Type: British Lx24.

Van Arsdell Classification: Trinovantian L, Earlier Dynastic Issues, Dubnovellaunus in Essex, Bronze Coins.

Sills believes that both Dubnovellaunos's silver coins, V-Sign (ABC 2398) and Scissors (ABC 2401), equate to his earliest gold, Annulate Head (ABC 2389) and A Type (Sills 537). The Crescent Head bronze equates with the silver.

Sills chronology: Gallo-Belgic Ca - British G (Early Clacton) / Aa Westerham - British La (Whaddon Chase) - British Lb (Westbury) - Addedomaros - Dubnovellaunos - Tasciovanos.

Dubnovellaunos was almost beyond doubt king of both the Trinovantes and Cantii. Around 7, at the end of his reign, he and Tincomarus of the Atrebates appeared in the res gestae as supplicants to Augustus, but it is not known whether that was king of the Trnovantes or Cantii at the time. He could not be the Dumnovellaunus of the Corieltauvi.

The illustrated coin is in the Portable Antiquities Scheme database (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
ND (30 BC - 25 BC)

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