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Bronze Unit 'Trinovantian M' - Tasciovanus
| Issuer | Catuvellauni tribe |
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| Year | 20 BC - 10 AD |
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| Currency | Stater |
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| Obverse lettering | VERI (Translation: Verlamion) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Tasciovanus ruled the Catuvellauni from roughly the late first century BC, establishing Verulamium (near modern St Albans) as a key power center and pushing tribal influence into territory previously dominated by the Trinovantes to the east. The 'Trinovantian M' designation reflects modern scholars' attempts to group a stylistically coherent set of uninscribed bronzes by die-link analysis rather than any ancient classification — the attribution to Tasciovanus remains working hypothesis, not settled fact.
Bronze units of this period circulated in a pre-Roman Britain where coinage was still a relatively recent adoption, filtered through Gaulish intermediaries rather than direct Roman contact.