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Tribe
FreeCatuvellauni · 1st century BC to AD 43
The lived north of the Thames, in today's Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and southern Cambridgeshire. These staters are reckoned their first gold coinage, struck around the time of Julius Caesar's expeditions to Britain in 55 and 54 BC. Caesar's opponent Cassivellaunus ruled north of the Thames in what later was Catuvellaunian land, but Caesar does not name his people and no source links him to these coins. Within a generation the same region was striking coins with rulers' names, first Tasciovanos at Verlamion (St Albans); Evans already saw the cross-shaped design of Tasciovanos's gold as a descendant of these Whaddon Chase coins.,,,,
Known for Leading the resistance to the Roman conquest in AD 43, as Cassius Dio implies; their town Verlamion is today's St Albans.
Catuvellaunithis coin
Trinovanteseastern neighbours (Essex and Suffolk); some finds records give these coins to them, and their 'Late Whaddon Chase' staters continue the design, recorded (Caesar names the Trinovantes); the link to these coins comes from finds records,,
Tasciovanoslater king of the Catuvellauni, whose cross-shaped obverse Evans derived from this type, read from coin legends (Tasciovanos); the link is Evans's reading of the designs,
Cassivellaunuswar leader north of the Thames against Caesar in 54 BC, often taken to be Catuvellaunian; not linked to these coins by any source, recorded (Caesar)
Read more: Wikipedia: Catuvellauni · Iron Age Coins in Britain: ABC 2433 · Wikipedia: Cassivellaunus · Catuvellauni and Trinovantes: all coins
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