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Gold 1/4 Stater - Tincomarus Tincomarus Tic Horse
| Issuer | Atrebates and Regini tribes (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 20 BC - 10 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Reverse description | A stylised horse prances to the left, rendered in the flowing, abstracted Celtic artistic tradition characteristic of Atrebatic coinage. The horse's body is depicted with rounded, pellet-like joints and a boldly curved neck, occupying the majority of the flan. Above the horse, the divided inscription TI C appears in Latin lettering — an abbreviation of the issuing ruler's name, Tincomarus — with one element placed above the horse's back and the other below or to the side. The composition fills the irregular, slightly convex flan with minimal negative field space, consistent with the tight design conventions of British Iron Age quarter staters. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Tincomarus was a son of Commius, the Atrebatic king who had served Julius Caesar as an envoy before famously turning against Rome and eventually fleeing to Britain. The dynasty Commius established in southern Britain maintained an uneasy relationship with Roman power, and Tincomarus appears to have leaned toward accommodation — he is one of the first British rulers to Latinize his name on coinage, a deliberate political signal. Augustus mentions him by name in the Res Gestae, noting that Tincomarus came to him as a suppliant, suggesting he was eventually ousted by a rival, likely his brother Eppillus.
The horse type on these quarter staters descends from the abstracted Macedonian gold stater tradition, transmitted through Gaulish intermediaries over roughly two centuries of stylistic drift.