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Cunobelin Centaur copper-alloy unit
Coin 25 · Cunobelin (North Thames region: Catuvellauni and Trinovantes)
A very worn copper-alloy unit of Cunobelin. The record describes a laureate head on one face and a centaur blowing a horn on the other; little survives on this specimen.
- Issuer or group
- Cunobelin (North Thames region: Catuvellauni and Trinovantes)
- Metal
- Copper-alloy unit
- Date (record)
- AD 10–40
- Catalogue refs (record)
- ABC 2957; VA 2089
- Specimen
- PAS 967409
- Specimen size
- Not in the record. The model is about 14.0 mm across, estimated from the scale in the photograph.
Obverse. Laureate head left with CVNOBELINI (record; the legend is a restored reading). Not reconstructed
Reverse. Centaur right blowing a horn, with TASCIOVANI F (record; partly restored). Not reconstructed
The design on both faces is too worn on the only licensed photograph to reconstruct. The as-minted faces are shown plain and marked as not reconstructed.
The record's British Museum catalogue range appears to be mistyped, so we do not quote it.
Features
| # | Feature | Face | As-minted evidence | On the found coin | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Animal body | Reverse | Observed in the photo | Partly visible on this find | A faint horizontal animal body across the left and centre of the face. |
| 2 | Letters TAS | Reverse | Observed in the photo | Partly visible on this find | Faint letters below the animal, which match the record's TAS. |
In the record but not modelled
- Laureate head: Named in the record for the obverse; not visible on this photo.
- CVNOBELINI: The record gives this legend in brackets, as a restored reading; not visible on this photo.
- Centaur blowing a horn: Named in the record; only an animal body is visible.
The found specimen
- Wear
- Very heavy: the obverse is shapeless and the reverse keeps only faint outlines.
- Corrosion
- Green and red-brown corrosion over both faces.
- Strike
- Cannot be judged.
- Completeness
- Complete; irregular outline.
These are descriptions, not grades. Thickness in the model: inferred (no weight or thickness recorded): set to 8.5% of the diameter.
Source and licence
Based on a photograph by Anni Byard / Oxfordshire County Council, via the Portable Antiquities Scheme and Wikimedia Commons (file page as retrieved, revision 1011844245), licensed CC BY 2.0. Changes: the two faces were cut out of the photograph, rotated and rescaled to a common frame, and used to make an interpretive 3D reconstruction. Depth, the edge and unseen surfaces are inferred, not measured. The as-minted version is further cleaned, restored and recoloured by us.
SHA-256 of the archived original: 4eb882d5a67794e694b903fd7559d567a02bcc33b210d778839d375e07255496. Retrieved 2026-10-16.