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Gold 1/4 Stater - Tasciovanos Tasciovanos Tasci
| Issuer | Catuvellauni and Trinovantes tribes (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 25 BC - 20 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse lettering | TASC |
| Edge | Plain |
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Tasciovanos ruled the Catuvellauni from roughly the late first century BC into the early first century AD, making him a near-contemporary of Augustus. His coinage marks one of the earliest sustained series of inscribed British Celtic issues — the appearance of his name abbreviation on gold fractions reflects direct influence from Gaulish coinage practices, themselves shaped by decades of Roman commercial contact. This particular quarter stater denomination circulated in a region roughly corresponding to modern Hertfordshire and Essex, an area archaeologically rich in late Iron Age elite exchange.