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FreeEpaticcus · c. AD 25–40 (coins dated about AD 30–45)
Epaticcus is known only from his coins: no Roman writer names him. His gold coins call him a son of Tasciovanos, which makes him a brother, or at least a close relative, of Cunobelin, the most powerful king north of the Thames. His coins circulate south of the Thames, in the lands of the , where he seems to have pushed out Verica and taken Calleva (Silchester). Around AD 40 his kingdom passed to Caratacus, Cunobelin's son, whose only known gold coin was made by the same engraver.,,,,
Known for Seizing the Atrebatic kingdom south of the Thames for Cunobelin's family in the years before the Roman invasion of AD 43.
Tasciovanosfather, read from coin legends,,
Epaticcusthis coin
Cunobelinbrother (Kretz: 'brother, step brother or merely a close blood relative'), read from coin legends,,
Caratacusnephew and successor; Caratacus's descent from Cunobelin is recorded by Cassius Dio, recorded (Caratacus as son of Cunobelin); succession read from coins,
Vericarival king of the Atrebates, probably driven out by him; Verica is almost certainly Dio's 'Bericus', who fled to Rome, recorded (Bericus); the link to Epaticcus is a modern reading,,
People Atrebates and Regni: Modern names for the Iron Age peoples of southern England between the middle Thames and the Sussex coast: roughly today's Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey, Sussex and eastern Wiltshire. Their main centres were Calleva (Silchester, Hampshire) and Noviomagus (Chichester, West Sussex). Catalogues treat their coins as one series.,,
Read more: Wikipedia: Epaticcus · Iron Age Coins in Britain: ABC 1343 · Wikipedia: Cunobeline · Epaticcus: all coins · Atrebates and Regni: all coins
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