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Cunobelin Northern Bronze unit
Coin 24 · Cunobelin (North Thames region: Catuvellauni and Trinovantes)
A copper-alloy unit recorded as Cunobelin's 'Northern Bronze' type. Corrosion covers both faces, so no design can be seen; the record gives its size, thickness and weight.
- Issuer or group
- Cunobelin (North Thames region: Catuvellauni and Trinovantes)
- Metal
- Copper-alloy unit
- Date (record)
- AD 10–40
- Catalogue refs (record)
- VA 2097; Mack 248; BMC 1972–1983
- Specimen
- PAS 763961
- Specimen size
- 13.8 mm across, 2.2 mm thick, 1.42 g (from the record)
Face A. No design visible on this specimen; the record does not describe the designs. Not reconstructed
Face B. No design visible on this specimen; the record does not describe the designs. Not reconstructed
No design is visible on either face of the only licensed photograph. Both as-minted faces are shown plain and marked as not reconstructed.
The record does not say which face is the obverse, so the faces are labelled A and B.
Features
| # | Feature | Face | As-minted evidence | On the found coin | Note |
|---|
The found specimen
- Wear
- Cannot be judged: the surface is hidden by corrosion.
- Corrosion
- Heavy: green and brown corrosion covers both faces completely.
- Strike
- Cannot be judged.
- Completeness
- Complete; nearly round, thick flan.
These are descriptions, not grades. Thickness in the model: maximum thickness from the record (2.2 mm); split between core and relief is inferred.
Source and licence
Based on a photograph by Julian Watters / St. Albans District Council, via the Portable Antiquities Scheme and Wikimedia Commons (file page as retrieved, revision 1141623226), 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: 13c5e77826bc68f16907cfc4d23e0e0aeba15e672fdc0d81a5e28d99659cacc4. Retrieved 2026-10-16.