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Gold 1/4 Stater - Tasciovanos VERL TASCI
| Issuer | Catuvellauni and Trinovantes tribes (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 20 BC - 15 BC |
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| Weight | 1.3 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | T-AS-C or TAS or T-AS-C-I |
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Tasciovanos ruled the Catuvellauni from around 25 BC, likely from Verulamium — the settlement near modern St Albans whose abbreviated name appears on this coin as VERL. His issues mark a significant shift in British Celtic coinage: the deliberate adoption of inscribed, named coinage borrowed from Gaulish practice, itself derived from Roman influence filtering northward across the Channel. Whether this reflects diplomatic contact with Rome, trade ambition, or straightforward political imitation is still debated.
Sills 524 and 525 represent distinct die groupings within this quarter stater type, distinguished primarily by subtle variations in the TASCI inscription layout.