id: 144332 accession number: 1969.148 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1969.148 updated: 2022-01-04 16:40:06.878000 Dubnovellaunos Stater: Wreath and Crescents (obverse); Horse with Branch (reverse), 20 BC–AD 10. England (Ancient Britain), Trinovantes. Gold; diameter: 1.8 cm (11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Norweb Collection 1969.148 title: Dubnovellaunos Stater: Wreath and Crescents (obverse); Horse with Branch (reverse) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 20 BC–AD 10 creation date earliest: -20 creation date latest: 10 current location: creditline: The Norweb Collection copyright: --- culture: England (Ancient Britain), Trinovantes technique: gold department: Medieval Art collection: MED - Numismatics type: Coins find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Diameter: 1.8 cm (11/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: [DVBNO]VELLAVN translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1969 opening date: 1970-01-27T05:00:00 Year in Review: 1969. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (January 27-February 22, 1970). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * English Gold Coins: Ancient to Modern Times. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (1963). --- PROVENANCE Mrs. Emery May Holden Norweb (1895-1984), Cleveland, OH, gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: -1969 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1969- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Dubnovellaunus, an early king of ancient Britain, is known from the discovery of coins that bear his name. digital description: wall description: Dubnovellaunus was the king of the area around Kent. He was a warlike ruler and at various times possessed territory on both sides of the Thames. He may have succeeded Addedomaros by conquest and ruled over the Trinovantes. He undoubtedly suffered defeat at the hands of Cunobeline of the Catuvellauni and was forced back to Kent. He was one of the British chieftains mentioned with Tincommius on the monument to Augustus at Ancyra in Galatia. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Cleveland Museum of Art, and Emery May Norweb. English Gold Coins, Ancient to Modern Times, On Loan to the Cleveland Museum of Art from the Norweb Collection. 1968. page number: pp. 7 url: Emery May Norweb Collection (Cleveland, Ohio), Emery May Norweb, C. E. Blunt, F. Elmore Jones, and R. P. Mack. Collection of Ancient British, Romano-British and English Coins. London: Spink, 1971. page number: pp. 1, 21-22 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1969.148/1969.148_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1969.148/1969.148_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1969.148/1969.148_full.tif