Coin of Prasutagus

The coin legend 'Subriiprasto Esico Fecit' is Latin and translates as 'Aesico made this under King Prasutagus'. It is rare to find Latin inscriptions on native British coins, especially ones that name the moneyer as well as the monarch. It is notable that this coin dates to only a few years after the Roman invasion but before the Boudican revolt: clearly Prasutagus, as a client king of Rome, was adopting Roman ways; the head on the obverse is naturalistic, rather than the stylised type of those on other face-horse types. The 'face-horse' coin is so-called because the dominant features are an abstract head on one side and a horse on the other. The symbolism is not fully understood.