The coin has now been sold at auction for £20,000
A new King has been added to British history and a world record set after a coin found in a Hampshire field fetched more than £20,000 at auction. Dating from around 50 BC and smaller than a human fingernail, the gold coin is stamped with the name Esunertos, a previously unrecorded Iron Age ruler.
It was struck sometime between 50 and 30 BC, shortly after Julius Caesar's first Roman raid of Britain in 55 BC. He landed on the Kent coast from a fleet of ships carrying 20,000 Roman soldiers. Leading Iron Age experts have since studied the coin and deduced it to be struck by a pre-eminent male figure dubbed ‘IISVNIRTOS’ whose name translates as ‘Mighty as the God Esos’. One theory is that he possibly ruled as King from nearby Danebury Hill fort.
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