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Gold 1/4 Stater - Tasciovanos Camul
| Issuer | Catuvellauni and Trinovantes tribes (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 25 BC - 20 BC |
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| Composition | Gold |
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| Obverse description | Abstract Celtic design featuring two crossed wreaths, one of which exhibits a curved form, with a pair of back-to-back crescents at the centre. Teardrop-shaped pellet motifs occupy the four angles created by the crossing wreaths. The overall composition is executed in the characteristically stylised La Tène decorative tradition, with no inscriptions present on this face. |
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| Mintage | ND (25 BC - 20 BC) |
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Tasciovanos ruled the Catuvellauni from roughly the late first century BC into the early first century AD, operating out of Verulamium — modern St Albans — and briefly extending control into Trinovantian territory around Camulodunum, modern Colchester. The "CAMUL" inscription on this issue almost certainly references that Camulodunum connection, making it one of the few Celtic British coins where the mint or political claim can be identified with reasonable confidence. Whether it reflects actual minting at Camulodunum or simply an assertion of dominion over the region remains debated.
At 1.4g, these quarter staters circulated at the upper end of everyday transactional coinage in late Iron Age Britain, a period when Roman commercial pressure was already reshaping indigenous monetary habits ahead of the Claudian invasion decades later.