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FreeDubnovellaunos · c. 20 BC – AD 10 (coinage)
Dubnovellaunos is known from his coins and from one line in the , Augustus's own account of his reign, which names a British king Dumnobellaunus among the rulers who came to him as suppliants; since Evans in 1864 the two have been taken as the same man. His gold was struck in two places: these wreath-and-horse staters in Essex, the land of the , and a different series of staters in Kent, the land of the . Whether one king ruled both or there were two kings of the same name has been argued since Evans. Evans thought he began as a Kentish prince who moved into or annexed Essex; Van Arsdell and Rodwell saw two different rulers; Kretz, in the of this coinage, concluded that one Dubnovellaunos ruled two separate but linked kingdoms at the same time, while calling much of the history conjecture. In Essex he seems to have followed Addedomaros and to have been followed by Cunobelin: a from Great Waltham, near Chelmsford, held staters of both Dubnovellaunos and Cunobelin.,,,
Known for Named as a British king who came to Augustus as a suppliant, in the emperor's own Res Gestae; Coin legends that show British engravers learning to spell a Celtic name in Latin letters, from DVBNOVALLAVNOS to DVBNOVIILLA and DVBNOVELLA, with one ending in the Latin -VS; Coinages in both Essex and Kent, at the centre of the debate over one king or two
People Trinovantes: An Iron Age people north of the Thames estuary, in today's Essex and parts of Suffolk and Hertfordshire, with their capital at Camulodunum (Colchester). This is their coinage under Dubnovellaunos, the 'Essex' series; his other gold coins were struck in Kent.,
Read more: Wikipedia: Dubnovellaunus · Kretz 2008 (BNJ 78) · IACB: ABC 2392 · Dubnovellaunos: all coins · Catuvellauni and Trinovantes: all coins
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