Ruler
FreeBodvoc · coins c. 10 BC–AD 20 (IACB); other estimates from c. 25 BC to AD 60
Bodvoc is known only from his coins: no Roman writer names him. Gold staters with his name alone on a plain face, and silver units with a head and his name, are found in the Dobunnic area, mostly Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire. When he ruled depends on the order given to the Dobunnic rulers named on coins (Anted, Eisu, Inam, Catti, Comux, Corio, Bodvoc). Evans thought the BODVOC coins 'the most ancient'; later put Bodvoc last; Van Arsdell, ranking the gold staters by their gold content, put Corio and Bodvoc first and Anted, Comux, Eisu and Catti after them, calling his order 'a hypothesis, not proven fact'. Most current catalogues follow this early dating, and one study finds a CORIO that keeps details of Bodvoc's . Cassius Dio records that in AD 43 part of the 'Bodunni', probably the , came to terms with the Romans.,,,,,
Known for Being, on most current datings, the first Dobunnic ruler to put his name on coins, written alone across a plain face.
Bodvocthis coin
Corioneighbour or near-contemporary ruler of the Dobunni; order debated, read from coin legends,
Anted, Eisu, Catti, Comux, Inamother Dobunnic rulers named on coins, probably later, read from coin legends,
Tasciovanoscontemporary king north of the Thames; Van Arsdell dates Bodvoc 'about the end of Tasciovanus' reign', read from coin legends (modern dating)
People Dobunni: An Iron Age people of the west of England, broadly today's Gloucestershire, Bristol and north Somerset, at times reaching into Oxfordshire, Wiltshire, Worcestershire, Warwickshire and Herefordshire. Under Rome their centre was Corinium (Cirencester).
Read more: Wikipedia: Dobunni · Iron Age Coins in Britain: ABC 2039 · PAS record 991204 · Bodvoc: all coins · Dobunni: all coins
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