TRINOVANTES Island of Brittany reign of *ADDEDOMAROS 40 - 30 - Lot 136

TRINOVANTES Island of Brittany reign of *ADDEDOMAROS 40 - 30 Spiral formed by three crescents leaning against the center of six curved twisted arms bordered by a line, globules in cantonment. R/. Free horse galloping to the right. Above the croup, three decorative elements (small horse heads). Below, cornucopia. In front of and below the tail, rings. Off-camera, trace of ADDIDOM legend. ♦ Mack 267; Scheers Lyon 1181; Van Arsdel 595; LT Evans pl.14 Gold statère "à la spirale". (5,52 g) Very rare. Very beautiful. The Trinovantes were one of the most powerful Breton peoples in pre-Roman Britain's protohistory. Their territory lay north of the Thames estuary, in the present-day counties of Essex and Suffolk. Their capital, Camulodunon, was located on the site of present-day Colchester, one of the supposed locations of Camelot. Their neighbors were the Icenes to the north, the Catuvellauni to the west and the Cantiaci to the south. *Addedomaros was a Celtic king who ruled over the Catuvellauni and Trinovantes peoples in southeastern England in the 1st century BC. His name means "the Great Spear".