Addedomaros Stater: Crescents (obverse); Horse, Branch, and Spiral Sun (reverse) (50 BCE–10 CE): Art, History and Details

Addedomaros Stater: Crescents (obverse); Horse, Branch, and Spiral Sun (reverse) (50 BCE–10 CE) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Addedomaros was a king of the tribe of Trinovantes, whose territory comprised parts of Essex and Suffolk, with its capital at Camulodunum, now known as Colchester. As a ruler, Addedomaros is completely unknown to history and thus only exists through his coins. Julius Caesar mentions that the Trinovantes were enemies of the Catuvellauni, their tribal areas being adjacent. He also comments that they supplied him with provisions during his second landing in Britain in 54 BC, thirty-nine years before the time of Addedomaros.

Object facts

• Title: Addedomaros Stater: Crescents (obverse); Horse, Branch, and Spiral Sun (reverse)
• Date: 50 BCE–10 CE
• Culture: England, Catuvellauni
• Type: Coins
• Technique: gold
• Dimensions: Diameter: 2.1 cm (13/16 in.)
• Collection: MED - Numismatics
• Department: Medieval Art
• Accession number: 1969.147

A detail from the museum

Addedomarus was a king of southeastern Britain and his name is known only from his inscribed coins.

Collection credit

The Norweb Collection

Further reading listed by the museum

• Cleveland Museum of Art, and Emery May Norweb. English Gold Coins, Ancient to Modern Times, On Loan to the Cleveland Museum of Art from the Norweb Collection. 1968.
• Emery May Norweb Collection (Cleveland, Ohio), Emery May Norweb, C. E. Blunt, F. Elmore Jones, and R. P. Mack. Collection of Ancient British, Romano-British and English Coins. London: Spink, 1971.

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