Gold 1/4 Stater - Tincomarus Tincomarus Tic Horse

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.