C. 6.—­As usual, coins were struck to commemorate the occasion, the earliest of the long series of Roman coins relating to Britain.  They bear on the obverse the laureated head of Claudius to the right, with the superscription TI.  CLAVD.  CAESAR.  AVG.  P.M.  TR.  P. VIIII.  IMP.  XVI.  On the reverse is an equestrian figure, between two trophies, surmounting a triumphal arch, over which is inscribed the legend DE.  BRITAN.  This coin, being of gold, was struck not by the Senate (who regulated the bronze issue), but by the Imperial mint, and dates from the year 46, when Claudius was clothed for the ninth time with the authority of Tribune.  By that time the arch was doubtless completed, and the coin may well show what it was actually like.  Another coin, also bearing the words DE.  BRITAN., shows Claudius in his triumphal chariot with an eagle on his sceptre.  Even poor little Britannicus, who never came to his father’s throne, being set aside through the intrigues of his stepmother Agrippina and finally poisoned (A.D. 55) by Nero, had a coin of his own on this occasion issued by the Senate and inscribed TI.  CLAVD.  CAESAR.  AVG.  F. [Augusti Filius] BRITANNICVS.

C.7.—­Seneca, whose own connection with Britain was that of a grinding usurer,[155] speaks with intense disgust of the conciliatory attitude of Claudius towards the populations, or more probably the kinglets, who had submitted to his sway.  He purposed, it seems, even to see some of them raised to Roman citizenship [Britannos togatos videre].  That the grateful provincials should have raised a temple to him at Camelodune, and rendered him worship as an incarnate deity, adds to the offence.  And, writing on the Emperor’s death, the philosopher points with evident satisfaction to the wretched fate of the man who triumphed over Britain and the Ocean, only to fall at last a victim to the machinations of his own wife.

C. 8.—­An interesting confirmation of this information as to the relations between Claudius and his British subjects is to be found in a marble tablet[156] discovered at Chichester, which commemorates the erection of a temple (dedicated to Neptune and Minerva) for the welfare of the Divine [i.e. Imperial] Household by a Guild of Craftsmen [collegium fabrorum] on a site given by Pudens the son of Pudentinus;[157] all under the authority of Tiberius Claudius Cogidubnus, at once a native British kinglet and Imperial Legate in Britain.  This office would imply Roman citizenship, as would also the form of his name.  That (doubtless on his enfranchisement) he should have been allowed to take such a distinguished nomen and praenomen as Tiberius Claudius marks the special favour in which he was held by the Emperor.[158] To this witness is also borne by Tacitus, who says that certain states in Britain were placed under Cogidubnus not as a tributary Kingdom but as a Roman Province.  Hence his title of Imperial Legate.  These states were doubtless those of the Cantii and Regni in Kent, Surrey and Sussex.