Commius fled (for safety) to the German tribes who had supplied reinforcements. they insisted that envoys be sent to Caesar. When they (the Bellovaci) heard that Correus was dead. especially when Commius returned from his mission to the German tribes with five hundred horsemen. It raised foolish hope in the Bellovaci. A few days before Commius had left to get help from the German tribes. under their own leader Correus and Commius the Atrebatian. "Deputations had come warning him (Caesar) that the Bellovaci were preparing for war. He had also made Commius chief over the Morini, (a tribe in Gaul)" (De Bello Gallico, VII, 68-90). In former years this Commius had rendered Caesar loyal and useful service in Britain and Caesar had ordered that his tribe be exempt from tax and have its independence restored. "Command of this (Gallic) relieving army was entrusted to Commius the Atrebatian. With them came Commius the Atrebatian, whom Caesar had sent on ahead to Britain" (De Bello Gallico, IV, 20-38) the Britons).sent an embassy to ask for peace. He instructed Commius to visit as many tribes as possible and urge them to entrust themselves to the protection of Rome." (De Bello Gallico, IV, 20-38 ) Caesar made them generous promises and sent them home, accompanied by Commius, whom he made king of the Atrebates after the conquest of that tribe, a man of whose courage, judgment and loyalty he held in great esteem and who was greatly respected by the Britons. "When news (of the impending Roman invasion) was brought to the Britons, envoys were sent (to Caesar), offering to submit to Rome. Appendix 2.Commius in "De Bello Gallico" by Julius Caesar In the following decades they are reasonably plentiful). He does not mention silver coins, but it is doubtful if any silver coins had been produced before his time.
"For money they (the Britons) use either bronze or gold coins or iron ingots of fixed weights." (De Bello Gallico, V, 2 - Julius Caesar. *Image* "Badbury Rings" silver stater of the Durotriges Appendix 1 Cunobelin's successor, Caratacus (Caradoc), minted coins almost identical to those of Epaticcus of the Atrebates 38-40 before he was forced to flee to the Romans in Gaul. He exercised his power through a number of petty local kings and possibly one of these, a son called Amminius, reigned briefly in Kent A.D. The reverse design of Cunobelin's coins ahow an ear of corn which is simply a reinterpretation of the head wreath of Apollo from earlier coins. His main base was Camulodunum (Colchester) and his coins bear both his name CVNO and the name of his capital CAMV. 10 by Cunobelin (Shakespeare's Cymbeline) who reigned until just before the Roman occupation which began in A.D. The two tribes, Trinovantes and Catuvellauni, were united in A.D. Contemporary with later coins of Tasciovanus were those of Sego and Andoco (10 B.C.-A.D. 10 Tasciovanus issued coins for the Catuvellauni, whose coins bore the legend TASCIO/RICON. The first inscribed coins of the Trinovantes were for Addedomaros, circa 45-20 B.C., succeeded by Dubnovellaunus. His successor in Kent was Dubnovellaunus, king of the Trinovantes, who seems to have annexed Kent and probably reigned circa 25-10 B.C. These early coins were based on the well-known gold stater of Philip II of Macedon (below), father of Alexander the Great, from the mid-4th Century B.C., which had an obverse showing the head of Apollo wearing a laurel wreath and reverse design of a two horse chariot (biga).Ībout the same time as Tincomarus, there was a ruler of the northern Atrebates called Epillus, who issued inscribed coins from Calleva (modern Silchester). When they began making their own indigenous coins they at first used Greek coins as models but later, when the colonies came under Roman rule, Roman coins also served. On the Continent the Celts of Gaul (roughly modern day France) had been introduced to the concepts of coinage through their contacts with the Greek Colonies along the south coast of France. Celtic expansion into the rest of England continued until after the Roman conquest. By the middle of the first century BC the Celts had established several kingdoms, the Cantiaci in Kent, the Regnenses in Sussex, Atrebates in Surrey, Durotriges in Dorset, Dobunni around the Severn, Catuvellauni in Hertfordshire, Coritani in Lincolnshire, Iceni in Norfolk and the Trinovantes in Suffolk and Essex. when a large area from Dorset in the southwest to Lincolnshire in the northeast gradually came under the rule of a new wave of Brythonic Celts. This reached its peak in the 2nd Century B.C. It seems likely that the indigenous tribes of southeast England began to have contact with Celts from the Continent as early as the beginning of the first millennium B.C.
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