Gold 1/4 Stater - Tincomarus Tincomarus Tinc Horse

Tincomarus was a son of Commius — the Atrebatic king who had served Caesar as an envoy before famously turning against him — and his coinage reflects a deliberate pivot toward Roman cultural influence, adopting Latin inscriptions at a time when most British rulers still issued wholly Celtic designs. He was later deposed, almost certainly by his brother Eppillus, and fled to Rome, where Augustus received him; the submission is recorded in the Res Gestae. This quarter stater belongs to that increasingly Romanized phase of his reign.