Dubnovellaunos Stater: Wreath and Crescents (obverse); Horse with Branch (reverse) (20 BCE–10 CE): Art, History and Details

Dubnovellaunos Stater: Wreath and Crescents (obverse); Horse with Branch (reverse) (20 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:

Dubnovellaunus was the king of the area around Kent. He was a warlike ruler and at various times possessed territory on both sides of the Thames. He may have succeeded Addedomaros by conquest and ruled over the Trinovantes. He undoubtedly suffered defeat at the hands of Cunobeline of the Catuvellauni and was forced back to Kent. He was one of the British chieftains mentioned with Tincommius on the monument to Augustus at Ancyra in Galatia.

Object facts

• Title: Dubnovellaunos Stater: Wreath and Crescents (obverse); Horse with Branch (reverse)
• Date: 20 BCE–10 CE
• Culture: England, Trinovantes
• Type: Coins
• Technique: gold
• Dimensions: Diameter: 1.8 cm (11/16 in.)
• Collection: MED - Numismatics
• Department: Medieval Art
• Accession number: 1969.148

A detail from the museum

Dubnovellaunus, an early king of ancient Britain, is known from the discovery of coins that bear his name.

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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