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Bronze Unit - Tasciovanos Tasciovanos Seahorse Tas Type
| Issuer | Catuvellauni and Trinovantes tribes (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 25 BC - 20 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A stylised seahorse is depicted facing left, rendered in the abstract Celtic manner with exaggerated curvilinear body. A pellet-in-ring device and a trefoil ornament appear above the creature, while a sunflower motif is placed in the field before it. The legend TAS, an abbreviation of the issuing authority Tasciovanos, appears below the seahorse. An exergual line separates the design from the lower field. |
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Tasciovanos ruled the Catuvellauni from roughly the late first century BC, operating out of Verulamium — modern St Albans — and his bronze issues represent some of the earliest Celtic coinage struck in Britain to show clear Mediterranean iconographic influence filtered through Gaulish intermediaries. The "seahorse" type sits among a large series of small bronzes attributed to his reign, a period during which cross-channel trade with Roman Gaul was intensifying rapidly following Caesar's campaigns.
ABC 2661 is relatively scarce in excavation contexts compared to his gold and silver issues, suggesting limited geographic circulation even within Catuvellaunian territory.