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Bronze Unit - Andoco Andoco Sheep
| Issuer | Catuvellauni and Trinovantes tribes (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 20 BC - 1 BC |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse description | Celticized laureate head facing right, rendered in the schematic Late Iron Age style with boldly striated hair locks radiating from the crown. The legend ANDOCO appears in the field before the face, executed in Latin script. The design is contained within a pellet border encircling the coin's periphery, characteristic of Catuvellaunian bronze coinage of the late first century BC. |
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| Obverse lettering | ANDOCO |
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Andoco is one of the more obscure rulers attested only through his coinage — no Roman or British literary source names him, and his precise relationship to the Catuvellauni dynastic sequence remains unresolved. He was likely a minor king or sub-king operating in the years before the Catuvellaunian consolidation under Tasciovanus and later Cunobelinus, whose dominance would eventually crowd out exactly this kind of regional issuer.
ABC 2733 is among the rarer die-linked bronzes from this tribal grouping, with findspot evidence clustering in Hertfordshire and Essex.