Just look at the size of this massive Dubnovellaunos Serpent gold stater - all 20 millimetres of it! A tad ragged around the edge, but feel the width, admire the quality. The advantage of buying a gold stater with a bigger than usual flan is that it rewards you with a bigger than usual view of the design. In this instance you are doubly rewarded because you also get every part of the king’s long name. Indeed, this is the first specimen we have had that displays virtually the complete inscription. Rainer Kretz says: "This is a superb example of a Cantian Dubnovellaunos stater struck on an exceptionally large flan with virtually all of its legend visible, which makes it an extremely rare coin indeed. This Cantian king was most probably the same person as the one who ruled in Essex at the same time, a theme which I shall return to in a forthcoming paper. The uniface design is ultimately inherited from the Gallic War stater and forms one of the striking features of the Cantian gold coinage, both uninscribed and dynastic. Cantian staters are generally exceedingly rare and until the discovery of an undeclared hoard in the mid 1990’s Dubnovellaunos Serpent staters were no exception. Even to date the numbers still total below forty, a number of which are in Museum collections. This is a golden opportunity to add a superb Cantian stater featuring an almost full legend to your collection.” Chris Rudd November list.                                                     1.10.07