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Unique ID: CAM-0E4443
Object type certainty: Certain
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A bronze Celtic stater.
Update May 2022: From the decription this sounds like a coin of Cunobelin; An Iron Age copper-alloy unit of the North Thames Region / Catuvellauni and Trinovantes, struck in the name of Cunobelin, dating to the period AD 10-40, similar to (if not actually) 'Cunobelinus Centaur' type. Obverse: [CVNOBELINI], Laureate head left. Reverse: [TASCIOVANI F], A centaur right, blowing a horn. As ABC, p. 141, no. 2957; BMC (Hobbs) nos.1968-1971; VA 2089.
Current location of find: With Finder
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: IRON AGE
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: IRON AGE
Subperiod to: Late
Period to: IRON AGE
Date from: Circa AD 10
Date to: AD 40
Quantity: 1
Thickness: 2.39 mm
Weight: 1.86 g
Diameter: 15.74 mm
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 18th September 2004
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Other reference: East Cambs Metal Detector Club
Museum accession number: None
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Denomination: Stater (cast bronze)
Ruler/issuer: CAT
Tribe: Catuvellauni and Trinovantes
Ancient British Coins (ABC): 2957
Obverse description: Head - profile to Left
Obverse inscription: None
Reverse description: Centaur to right, blowing horn.
Reverse inscription: None
Die axis measurement: 12 o'clock
Status: Regular
Status qualifier: Certain
No coin references available.
4 Figure: TL5098
Four figure Latitude: 52.559166
Four figure longitude: 0.211299
1:25K map: TL5098
1:10K map: TL59NW
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
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Hobbs, R. | 1996 | British Iron Age Coins in the British Museum | London | British Museum Press | 134 | 1968 - 1971 | |
Kitchen, G.M., Sinclair, M. and Skingley, P. | 2004 | Coins of England and The United Kingdom | Spink and Sons Ltd | 33 | 336 |