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Message:: [QUOTE="Al Kowsky, post: 8322984, member: 97383"]John, I enjoyed your article & hopefully it's given featured status <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. Of the 3 coins you've pictured, the one that impressed me the most is the silver unit with a boar on the reverse <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie50" alt=":happy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. Your coin is far superior to the example pictured in Chris Rudd's book, & is labeled Very rare. Chris Rudd writes "The coinage of Tasciovanos, meticulously studied by Rainer Kretz, was one of the most sophisticated coinages seen in Britain and Gaul. It had no fewer than six different denominations in gold, silver and bronze." Pictured below is an example of the gold stater you mention in your article with an ear of barley that was issued by his son Cunobelinus.[ATTACH=full]1474602[/ATTACH] CELTIC, Trinovantes & Catuvellauni. Cunobelinus. Circa AD 10-43. AV Stater: 5.42 gm, 18 mm, 12 h. Camulodunum Mint. ABC 2786. Al Kowsky Collection. Ex CNG Triton XXIV, lot 1365, January 2021; Ex Dix Noonan Webb 114, lot 1281, September 2013.[/QUOTE]