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The Gold Coinage of Verica

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2011

D. F. Allen  and
Colin Haselgrove
D. F. Allen
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, University of Durham
Colin Haselgrove
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, University of Durham
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At the end of a recent die-study of the gold coins of Cunobelin, it was suggested that there might be something to learn from a comparable die-study of the gold coinage of Cunobelin's contemporary, Verica. The index of pre-Roman coins kept by the Institute of Archaeology in Oxford now makes such a task feasible without excessive labour. Thanks are again due to Mr Robert Wilkins of the Institute, for arranging and executing the tedious photography involved.

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Britannia , Volume 10 , November 1979 , pp. 1 - 17
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Copyright © D. F. Allen and Colin Haselgrove 1979. Exclusive Licence to Publish: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

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References

2 Britannia vi (1975), 1–19.Google Scholar

3 Lyon, S. in Mossop, H. R., The Lincoln Mint (Newcastle upon Tyne, 1970), 16–19.Google Scholar For the original application of this formula, see Biometrika xl, 237–64.Google Scholar

4 The figures given in Britannia vi (1975), 4Google Scholar, appear to be in error. For the staters, the estimated proportion represented by the obverse dies is 79 per cent ± 6 per cent, and by the reverse dies, 66 per cent ± 8 per cent. For the quarter-staters, the proportions represented by the obverse and reverse dies are 73 per cent ± 15 per cent and 46 per cent ± 21 per cent respectively. The original number of staters obverses will have been around 90 and the number of quarter-stater obverse dies around 30, suggesting that a figure of 1,000,000 for the likely number of gold staters or equivalent is still of the right order, at least according to the figures estimated for die-output.

5 Britannia vi (1975), 4–5.Google Scholar

6 Unpublished research for Ph.D. dissertation (C.C.H.). More find-spots are needed.

7 Information from Dr J. P. C. Kent.

8 It is hoped to consider the silver issues of Verica further in a separate article which will analyse them within the wider context of the development of silver currencies in southern England.

9 J. P. C. Kent, ‘The Origin and development of Celtic Gold Coinage in Britain’ (unpublished paper).