Gold 1/4 Stater - Tincomarus Tincomarus Spiral

Tincomarus was the son of Commius, the Atrebatic king who had served as Caesar's envoy during the Gallic campaigns before spectacularly defecting and leading guerrilla resistance against Rome — making his son's later coinage, which increasingly mimics Roman republican and Augustan types, one of the more politically loaded numismatic shifts in British pre-Roman history. This spiral type represents an earlier phase of Tincomarus's rule, before that Romanization became overt.

He was eventually expelled, possibly by his brother Eppillus, and is recorded as a suppliant at Augustus's court — a detail preserved in the Res Gestae.