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Cunobelin's Silver

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2011

Philip de Jersey
Philip de Jersey
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Institute of Archaeology, Oxford, philip.dejersey@archaeology.oxford.ac.uk
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The silver coins of Cunobelin have received relatively little attention in comparison to Cunobelin's gold and bronze coinage, although the artistic merit of the issues based on classical prototypes has been much commented upon. The lack of detailed examination of other aspects of the silver coinage has undoubtedly been due largely to its rarity. When Allen published ‘Cunobelin's gold’ in Britannia in 1975, some sixty-six silver coins were known, of nineteen types; only one type was known by more than six or seven examples. In contrast, the appendix to this paper lists approximately 335 coins, of twenty-eight types, from one hundred different locations. Most of this fivefold increase in finds is due to metal detecting, with less than five per cent of the total found in the course of archaeological excavation.

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Britannia , Volume 32 , November 2001 , pp. 1 - 44
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Copyright © Philip de Jersey 2007. Exclusive Licence to Publish: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

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