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Gold Stater - Tasciovanos Tasciovanos Type X
| Issuer | Catuvellauni and Trinovantes tribes (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 25 BC - 20 BC |
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| Value | Stater (1) |
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| Reverse description | Stylised Celtic horse advancing to the right, rendered in the characteristic schematic tradition of Late Iron Age British coinage. Above the horse appear a bucranium (ox-skull), a large solar motif rendered as an anemone or wheel pattern, and the royal inscription. A hook-like object is depicted beneath the horse, a design element recurring across several issues attributed to Tasciovanos. The reverse design reflects the artistic conventions of Catuvellauni coinage, combining symbolic imagery with the ruler's name. |
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| Reverse lettering | TASCIAVAN |
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Tasciovanos ruled the Catuvellauni from roughly the final decades BC into the early first century AD, operating out of Verlamion — the settlement beneath modern St Albans — and his coinage marks a clear shift toward more organized production compared to earlier uninscribed British issues. The Type X classification within his stater series reflects die-study groupings developed by numismatists to sequence his output, though the precise chronology remains contested.
These coins circulated in a Britain still a generation away from Claudian invasion, used primarily for elite transactions and warrior payments rather than everyday commerce.