Bronze Unit - Tasciovanos Tasciovanos Lion and Sphinx

Tasciovanos ruled the Catuvellauni from roughly the late first century BC, operating from Verulamium — modern St Albans — and was almost certainly the father of Cunobelin, Shakespeare's Cymbeline. His bronze issues circulated in a region increasingly saturated with Roman trade goods and Gallo-Belgic monetary influence, yet his coinage retained distinctly insular die-cutting traditions. The iconographic pairing catalogued here appears on some of his smallest denominations, struck at a moment when the tribe was consolidating control over former Trinovantian territory following the collapse of that tribe's independent coinage.