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Gold Stater - Tasciovanos Warrior Series A
| Issuer | Catuvellauni and Trinovantes tribes (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 20 BC - 15 BC |
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| Reference(s) | ABC#2562 , Van Arsdell#1732 , Sp#217 , BMC Iron#1609-11 , Mack#155 |
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| Reverse description | A stylised warrior on horseback galloping to the right, holding aloft a carnyx (Celtic war trumpet) in the raised hand. A five-spoked wheel appears behind and above the horse, serving as a symbolic or cult device commonly found on British Iron Age coinage. The abbreviated tribal name TASC is inscribed around the design, with the letter T positioned above the horse's tail and A below the tail, attributing the issue to the ruler Tasciovanos of the Catuvellauni. The execution is characteristically schematic, with the horse rendered in the energetic, abstracted style typical of Late British Iron Age die work. |
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| Mintage | ND (20 BC - 15 BC) - VA 1732-01: Three pellets. A with crossbar - ND (20 BC - 15 BC) - VA 1732-05: Three pellets. A without crossbar - ND (20 BC - 15 BC) - VA 1732-09: One pellet. A without crossbar - ND (20 BC - 15 BC) - VA 1732-11: Two pellets - |
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Tasciovanos ruled the Catuvellauni from a base at Verulamium — modern St Albans — and his coinage marks the moment when British tribal rulers began striking gold consistently enough to suggest something approaching a mint operation rather than ad hoc production. The Warrior Series is among his earliest attributable issues, predating the stylistic refinements seen in his later output and likely connected to military activity or tribute demands in the decades immediately before Roman intervention reshaped the political geography of southeast Britain.
ABC 2562 is well-documented across major institutional collections, with the British Museum specimens (BMC Iron Age 1609–11) providing the primary typological anchor for the series.