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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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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse description | Plain convex gold flan bearing a recessed rectangular tablet or panel in the centre of the field, within which the abbreviated Latin legend COMF is incised in bold, irregular Celtic lettering — an abbreviation for Commii Filius, meaning 'Son of Commius', asserting the dynastic lineage of Tincomarus. The flan is characteristically lumpy and irregular, as is typical of late Iron Age British quarter staters struck by the Atrebates. No figural imagery appears on this face; the entire design is devoted to the epigraphic declaration within its framed tablet. |
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| Obverse lettering | COMF (Translation: Son of Commius.) |
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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.