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Gold 1/4 Stater - Tasciovanos Rings Right
| Issuer | Catuvellauni and Trinovantes tribes (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 25 BC - 20 BC |
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| Currency | Stater |
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| Obverse description | Crossed curved wreaths forming a quartered design, with a pair of back-to-back crescents at the centre. Rings and pellets are disposed in the angles of the wreath divisions, filling the irregular flan in characteristic Late Iron Age Celtic decorative style. |
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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, operating out of Verulamium — modern St Albans — and his coinage marks one of the earliest sustained uses of a named ruler's identity on British-struck gold. The rings motif on this quarter stater appears across several of his issues and is thought to derive, distantly, from continental Gaulish prototypes that themselves descended from degraded Macedonian gold staters circulating through trade networks generations earlier.
At 1.33g, these fractions were likely used in elite gift exchange and mercenary payment rather than everyday commerce. No archaeological evidence suggests a functioning retail market economy in late Iron Age Britain that would have required denominations this small.