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Dubnovellaunos Branch. II Type. c.25-10 BC. Celtic gold stater. 17mm. 5.36g.
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Dubnovellaunos Branch. II Type. Sills class 2b, dies 20/25. Kretz class D2-2, dies L16?c.25-10 BC. Gold stater. 17mm. 5.36g. Banded flan with wreath motif, two outline crescents and two rings in centre, forming two ‘sad’ hidden faces, ring at end of wreath./ Full-bodied horse prancing left with beaded mane and long high-arched tail, ringed-pellet, two pellets and [DV]BNOVIILLAVN above, wavy branch and pellet below, pellet under head. ABC 2392 (this coin). VA−, BMC 2437-39, DK 538, S 207. CCI 02.1028 (this coin). Good VF, neat round flan of rose gold, magnificent horse with almost complete DVBNOVIILLAVN. Ex Christoph Bodmer collection, found Thurrock, Essex. EXCESSIVELY RARE die pair, only two others recorded.
Commenting on this particular coin in 2004, Rainer Kretz, author of The Trinovantian staters of Dubnovellaunos (BNJ 78, 2008, p.1-31), wrote: “Dubnovellaunos’ Essex series of staters can be divided into an early and a late type, both of which share the same obverse design. Although the reverses share the same theme, the early type is distinguished by a less Romanised horse, more akin to those of the earlier uninscribed North Thames and Kentish types. This stater belongs to the late variety, which is by far the more common. It shows a more streamlined, elongated horse with a more naturalistic head. The obverse appears to be based on the ‘crossed wreaths’ stater [ABC 2514] issued by Ađđedomaros but with one of the wreaths omitted and replaced with two ringed pellets. The pronounced banding which can be clearly seen on the obverse of this specimen can also be observed on Dubnovellaunos’ Cantian stater issues. The Trinovantian staters of Dubnovellaunos are relatively common and comprise a number of different die varieties. Whilst the obverses are largely identical, the reverses display a considerable degree of variation in the ornaments displayed around the horse and palm branch. This example is unusual in having the ringed pellet above the horse flanked by additional pellets. Only a handful of coins are known of this particular die variety including BMC 2437-39. Crisply struck, well-centred examples of Dubnovellaunos staters are few and far between. They also rarely show virtually the entire inscription thus making this a superior specimen indeed.” Thanks to its unusually high grade and its spectacularly splendid inscription, this Christoph Bodmer stater is a well documented coin. As well as being illustrated in Ancient British Coins (2010), p.121 and 149 (this coin) and Britain’s First Coins (2013), p.50 (this coin), it has also been published in The British Numismatic Journal 78 (2008), p.26 and 28 (this coin) and Divided Kingdoms (2017), p.595 and 618 (this coin).
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Dubnovellaunos Branch. II Type. Sills class 2b, dies 20/25. Kretz class D2-2, dies L16?c.25-10 BC. Gold stater. 17mm. 5.36g. Banded flan with wreath motif, two outline crescents and two rings in centre, forming two ‘sad’ hidden faces, ring at end of wreath./ Full-bodied horse prancing left with beaded mane and long high-arched tail, ringed-pellet, two pellets and [DV]BNOVIILLAVN above, wavy branch and pellet below, pellet under head. ABC 2392 (this coin). VA−, BMC 2437-39, DK 538, S 207. CCI 02.1028 (this coin). Good VF, neat round flan of rose gold, magnificent horse with almost complete DVBNOVIILLAVN. Ex Christoph Bodmer collection, found Thurrock, Essex. EXCESSIVELY RARE die pair, only two others recorded.
Commenting on this particular coin in 2004, Rainer Kretz, author of The Trinovantian staters of Dubnovellaunos (BNJ 78, 2008, p.1-31), wrote: “Dubnovellaunos’ Essex series of staters can be divided into an early and a late type, both of which share the same obverse design. Although the reverses share the same theme, the early type is distinguished by a less Romanised horse, more akin to those of the earlier uninscribed North Thames and Kentish types. This stater belongs to the late variety, which is by far the more common. It shows a more streamlined, elongated horse with a more naturalistic head. The obverse appears to be based on the ‘crossed wreaths’ stater [ABC 2514] issued by Ađđedomaros but with one of the wreaths omitted and replaced with two ringed pellets. The pronounced banding which can be clearly seen on the obverse of this specimen can also be observed on Dubnovellaunos’ Cantian stater issues. The Trinovantian staters of Dubnovellaunos are relatively common and comprise a number of different die varieties. Whilst the obverses are largely identical, the reverses display a considerable degree of variation in the ornaments displayed around the horse and palm branch. This example is unusual in having the ringed pellet above the horse flanked by additional pellets. Only a handful of coins are known of this particular die variety including BMC 2437-39. Crisply struck, well-centred examples of Dubnovellaunos staters are few and far between. They also rarely show virtually the entire inscription thus making this a superior specimen indeed.” Thanks to its unusually high grade and its spectacularly splendid inscription, this Christoph Bodmer stater is a well documented coin. As well as being illustrated in Ancient British Coins (2010), p.121 and 149 (this coin) and Britain’s First Coins (2013), p.50 (this coin), it has also been published in The British Numismatic Journal 78 (2008), p.26 and 28 (this coin) and Divided Kingdoms (2017), p.595 and 618 (this coin).
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