Ruler
FreeCommios · coins c. 50–20 BC
Commios is known from his gold staters. He is usually identified with Commius, the Gallic leader whom Julius Caesar made king of the of northern Gaul and sent as his envoy to Britain in 55 BC. Commius later turned against Rome, joined the great revolt of Vercingetorix in 52 BC, and on surrendering asked that he should never have to come into the sight of any Roman. A later Roman writer, Frontinus, tells how he escaped to Britain by raising his sails on ships stranded at low tide, so that Caesar gave up the chase. Whether the British Commios is the same man is not proven: Evans called the link a 'pleasing conceit', and Simon Bean's later dating of the coins to around 30 BC makes it less likely. Three later kings of the region, Tincomarus, Eppillus and Verica, call themselves sons of Commios on their coins.,,,,,,
Known for Gold staters with his name, COMMIOS; probably the Gallic ally and later enemy of Julius Caesar.
Commiosthis coin
Commius of the Gallic Atrebatespossibly the same man, recorded (Caesar, Hirtius, Frontinus); the identification with the British Commios is a modern reading,,,,
Tincomarusson, as his coins claim (COMMI F), read from coin legends,
Eppillusson, as his coins claim, read from coin legends
Vericason, as his coins claim (COMMI F), read from coin legends
People Regini and Atrebates: Iron Age peoples of central southern England: the Atrebates in today's Hampshire, Berkshire and north Wiltshire, the on the Sussex coast around Chichester. Their gold coins carry the names of Commios and of later rulers who call themselves his sons.,
Read more: Wikipedia: Commius · Iron Age Coins in Britain: ABC 1022 · Van Arsdell online: gold coinage of Commius · Commios: all coins · Atrebates and Regni: all coins
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