Iron Age coins from his reign fall into two categories, one featuring Romanised elements and the other with more specifically British imagery. These four gold coins fall into the latter category, with an ear of corn on the obverse and a horse on the reverse. Cunobelin’s abbreviated name appears along with the horse, while straddling the corn are the letters CAMV, denoting Camulodunum, the Roman name for Colchester.

The coins were discovered in Redbourn, Hertfordshire, and may have been produced at the mint in Verulamium, possibly for use in Cunobelin’s Trinovantian territories.

They now join Verulamium Museum’s collection of Iron Age coins, which includes around 100 examples from the tribal area of the Catuvellauni.

Provenance

Redbourne, Hertfordshire (grid reference reserved)