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Eppillus Carnyx. Cantiaci. c.AD1-15. Celtic silver unit. 14mm. 0.81g.
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Eppillus Carnyx. c.AD1-15. Silver unit. 14mm. 0.81g. Laureate head left, EPPIL in front./ Warrior on horse right holding carnyx, EPPILL below. ABC 399, VA 441, BMC 1132, DK 117, S 111. Good VF, lightly toned silver, magnificent head, full inscription. EXTREMELY RARE only fourteen others recorded, including four chipped or damaged.
When Eppillus entered northern Kent, this ambitious Atrebatic warlord from distant Calleva in Hampshire, brother of King Tincomarus, was already an official “friendly king” on diplomatic terms with Rome and Augustus: that’s the point of his Latin title Rex, displayed on coinages in both territories (ABC 1160, 396). His fine, rather Augustan, portrait introduced their new king to the Cantii in an elaborate diadem crowned with a disc ornament and with twin ribbons descending at the sides and at the back, seen clearly here. This regalia seems specific to his dynasty (cf Sam, ABC 369 and Touto ABC 432, with small individual differences: contrast Dubnovellaunus’ headgear, also in Kent: ABC 315, 339). Eppillus seems to have taken his scribe with him from Calleva – perhaps to keep his accounts – note exactly the same letter shapes here as on ABC 1160 at Calleva – but the rest of this Cantian design was engraved by an artist with modelling skills of gemstone standard, perhaps engaged from one of his mighty neighbour, Cunobelinus’ workshops: the horse resembles Cunobelinus’ early Class 2 Linear staters (ABC 2774), helping to date this unit, and the design itself, whose athletic horseman holds a carnyx aloft at full gallop, echoes Tasciovanos’ warrior stater ABC 2562. Kent was a crowded diplomatic environment. Cunobelinus, also under treaty with Augustus, had his own designs upon the Cantian bank of the Thames estuary, with its ample revenues from ships plying trade with Roman Gaul. Eppillus – a “Little Horse” in name only – lets it be known that he ranked himself equal with any other British king, was a seasoned commander with powerful friends and was well equipped to defend his possessions.
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Eppillus Carnyx. c.AD1-15. Silver unit. 14mm. 0.81g. Laureate head left, EPPIL in front./ Warrior on horse right holding carnyx, EPPILL below. ABC 399, VA 441, BMC 1132, DK 117, S 111. Good VF, lightly toned silver, magnificent head, full inscription. EXTREMELY RARE only fourteen others recorded, including four chipped or damaged.
When Eppillus entered northern Kent, this ambitious Atrebatic warlord from distant Calleva in Hampshire, brother of King Tincomarus, was already an official “friendly king” on diplomatic terms with Rome and Augustus: that’s the point of his Latin title Rex, displayed on coinages in both territories (ABC 1160, 396). His fine, rather Augustan, portrait introduced their new king to the Cantii in an elaborate diadem crowned with a disc ornament and with twin ribbons descending at the sides and at the back, seen clearly here. This regalia seems specific to his dynasty (cf Sam, ABC 369 and Touto ABC 432, with small individual differences: contrast Dubnovellaunus’ headgear, also in Kent: ABC 315, 339). Eppillus seems to have taken his scribe with him from Calleva – perhaps to keep his accounts – note exactly the same letter shapes here as on ABC 1160 at Calleva – but the rest of this Cantian design was engraved by an artist with modelling skills of gemstone standard, perhaps engaged from one of his mighty neighbour, Cunobelinus’ workshops: the horse resembles Cunobelinus’ early Class 2 Linear staters (ABC 2774), helping to date this unit, and the design itself, whose athletic horseman holds a carnyx aloft at full gallop, echoes Tasciovanos’ warrior stater ABC 2562. Kent was a crowded diplomatic environment. Cunobelinus, also under treaty with Augustus, had his own designs upon the Cantian bank of the Thames estuary, with its ample revenues from ships plying trade with Roman Gaul. Eppillus – a “Little Horse” in name only – lets it be known that he ranked himself equal with any other British king, was a seasoned commander with powerful friends and was well equipped to defend his possessions.
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