Cunobeline Quarter Stater: Corn (obverse); Horse and Branch (reverse) (c. 10–40 CE): Art, History and Details

Cunobeline Quarter Stater: Corn (obverse); Horse and Branch (reverse) (c. 10–40 CE) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

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

The ear of corn or wheat is frequently found on coins of Cunobeline. The workmanship on the horse is not as good as another in the collection, 1969.152. The relative proportions of the head and neck are poor and the animal has acquired an additional joint in its right foreleg, though this does not appear on all specimens.

Object facts

• Title: Cunobeline Quarter Stater: Corn (obverse); Horse and Branch (reverse)
• Date: c. 10–40 CE
• Culture: England
• Type: Coins
• Technique: gold
• Dimensions: Diameter: 1.2 cm (1/2 in.)
• Collection: MED - Numismatics
• Department: Medieval Art
• Accession number: 1969.153

A detail from the museum

Cunobeline (Strong as a Dog), was a king in pre-Roman Britain from about AD 9 until about AD 40.

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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