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Gold 1/4 Stater - Tasciovanos Verlamion
| Issuer | Catuvellauni and Trinovantes tribes (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 25 BC - 20 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Crossed wreath pattern fills the flan, with one or both arms rendered in a curved form in the late Celtic artistic tradition. A pair of back-to-back crescents occupies the central field, serving as the focal decorative device. The abbreviated tribal mint inscription VER(L), referencing Verlamion, appears in the angles between the wreath arms, accompanied by a teardrop pellet when only three letters are present. The overall design is geometric and stylised, characteristic of late Iron Age British coinage produced under Tasciovanos. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Tasciovanos ruled the Catuvellauni from their capital at Verulamium — modern St Albans — during a period of acute political pressure from Roman-aligned client kingdoms to the south. His coins bearing the VERLAMIO mint signature are notable precisely because they confirm Verulamium as an operational mint site, one of the earliest epigraphically confirmed in pre-Roman Britain. The quarter stater denomination was almost certainly used for elite gift exchange and inter-tribal transactions rather than everyday commerce; the weight makes change-making impractical at any market scale.
ABC 2598 is among the scarcer Tasciovanic fractions.