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Cunobelin seated Victory copper-alloy unit
Coin 01 · Cunobelin (North Thames region: Catuvellauni and Trinovantes)
A copper-alloy unit of Cunobelin. The record gives his name in two panels on one face and a seated Victory on the other; this specimen is heavily corroded.
- Issuer or group
- Cunobelin (North Thames region: Catuvellauni and Trinovantes)
- Metal
- Copper-alloy unit
- Date (record)
- AD 8–41
- Catalogue refs (record)
- ABC 2918; BMC 1921–1927
- Specimen
- PAS 756076
- Specimen size
- Not in the record. The model is about 14.6 mm across, estimated from the scale in the photograph.
Obverse. CVNOBE / LINI in two panels, with a pellet-in-ring above and below (record; the record brackets the legend as not fully legible). Not reconstructed
Reverse. Victory seated left, with TASC below the ground line (record; TASC is bracketed in the record). Not reconstructed
Both faces are heavily corroded. The obverse lettering cannot be read on this specimen, so the as-minted obverse is shown plain and marked as not reconstructed.
The reverse is reconstructed only to outline level: the seated figure's details are not visible.
Diameter and weight are not in the record.
Features
| # | Feature | Face | As-minted evidence | On the found coin | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seated figure | Reverse | Observed in the photo | Partly visible on this find | The outline of a figure seated on a chair or throne, in the upper left and centre of the face. |
| 2 | Tall upright line | Reverse | Observed in the photo | Partly visible on this find | A long raised upright line to the right of the figure. |
In the record but not modelled
- Legend CVNOBE / LINI in two panels: In the record, bracketed as not fully legible. Only faint horizontal bars that may be panel edges can be seen, so no letters are marked or modelled.
- Pellet-in-ring above and below the panels: In the record; not visible under the corrosion.
- TASC below the ground line: In the record, bracketed; not visible on this specimen.
The found specimen
- Wear
- Heavy: the reverse figure survives only as an outline; the obverse lettering is gone.
- Corrosion
- Heavy green corrosion and crusting over both faces.
- Strike
- Cannot be judged from the photo.
- Completeness
- Flan appears whole but has an irregular, uneven 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 Andrew Brown / The British Museum, via the Portable Antiquities Scheme and Wikimedia Commons (file page as retrieved, revision 1166326332), 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: 02c91bf0d6677594a6732a35ff12844ccbd400cd2d27a702e41cba619592c42b. Retrieved 2026-10-16.