Silver Minim - Tincomarus Tincomarus Bull's Head

Tincomarus was a son of Commius — the Atrebatic king who had served as Caesar's envoy in Britain before spectacularly defecting and fleeing to Britain after falling out with Rome. The shift visible across Tincomarus's coinage from native Celtic idiom toward increasingly Romanized types tracks his own political realignment; he eventually sought refuge with Augustus himself, appearing in the Res Gestae as a suppliant British king. These minims, the smallest denomination in the series, circulated at the granular end of daily exchange and survive in correspondingly rougher condition than the larger units.