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The E-Sylum: Volume 19, Number 52, December 25, 2016, Article 8

THE CUNOBELIN METALWORKER COIN

Cunobelin metalworker coin

Philip De Jersey writes:

I’ve been scratching my head about this since it appeared in The E-Sylum last week. I don’t know who the Celtic collector was, but in answer to the query this week from Ron Haller-Williams, the type with a ‘minter’ on the reverse is easy enough to pin down: the so-called Cunobelin metalworker type, listed as ABC 2969 in Cottam, de Jersey, Rudd and Sills (2010), Ancient British Coins. A picture of one is attached. As you can see it is not a minter – he seems to be working on a bowl – but it is not uncommon to find the type described as a mint worker in the early literature.

Bob Van Arsdell writes:

The "minter at his work" coin is probably the well-known "metal-worker" type of Cunobeline - V2097. See the plate and description on my website: www.vanarsdellcelticcoinageofbritain.com/plates/plate_85.html

I'm going to see if I can identify the manuscript author through the handwriting. Not the kind of thing you can do quickly. It's definitely not William Stukeley.

Thanks, folks. One more piece in the puzzle... Here's Bob's catalog entry. -Editor

2097 - 01 Cunobeline Metal Worker Type 20-43 A.D. C
Bronze Unit 1.9-2.6 gms. 16 mm

Cunobelin metalworker coin Van Arsdell Earliest Record: Camden, 1590

OBV: Romanized head left
Identifying points:
1) CVNOBELIN around head
2) pellet border

REV: Seated metal-worker right
Identifying points:
1) metal-worker hammers vase
2) hair in bun at back
3) hat with brim
4) pellet border

CLASSIFICATION: Trinovantian W

NOTES: Some in museums.
Reverse copies coin of Dubnovellaunus (Cantii), see number 178 - 01, ultimate source of image may be a gem a late Roman one in the Ashmolean is similar.

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
MORE ON THE MYSTERY CATALOG OF ENGLISH COINS (www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v19n51a08.html)



Wayne Homren, Editor

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