Catti Stater: Tree Symbol on Plain Field (obverse); Horse and Wheel (reverse) (20–45 CE): Art, History and Details

Catti Stater: Tree Symbol on Plain Field (obverse); Horse and Wheel (reverse) (20–45 CE) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

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

This piece comes from Dobunni territory, the tribe occupying an area in the Cotswold (Severn estuary) country. The names found on them are probably those of chieftains rather than of kings. Names such as Catti, Antedrig, Inam, and Comux appear on various pieces, all names unknown in history. The horse has now become crude on his journey to the wilder parts of the country, but the wheel of the lost chariot remains.

Object facts

• Title: Catti Stater: Tree Symbol on Plain Field (obverse); Horse and Wheel (reverse)
• Date: 20–45 CE
• Culture: England, Dobunni
• Type: Coins
• Technique: gold
• Dimensions: Diameter: 2 cm (13/16 in.)
• Collection: MED - Numismatics
• Department: Medieval Art
• Accession number: 1969.154

A detail from the museum

The Dobunni were one of the tribes believed to have issued coins before the Romans' arrival.

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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