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Silver Minim - Tincomarus Tincomarus Interlocking Squares CO
| Issuer | Atrebates and Regini tribes (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 25 BC - 20 BC |
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| Value | Minim (1⁄200) |
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| Obverse description | Two interlocking squares with inwardly curved sides rendered in a geometric Celtic style, enclosing the royal dynastic abbreviation 'CO' (for Commios, father of Tincomarus) within the central field. The design is framed by a pellet border, with additional pellets placed in the angles formed by the interlocking squares. The lettering is executed in a crisp Latin script typical of late Iron Age coinage from the Atrebatic kingdom. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Tincomarus — son of Commius, the Atrebatic chief who had served Caesar as an interpreter and envoy before dramatically switching sides — issued coinage that consciously aped Roman aesthetic conventions, a political signal directed as much at Augustus as at his own subjects. He was eventually expelled, probably by his brother Eppillus, and turned up in Rome itself, named among foreign suppliants in the Res Gestae. That a coin this small carried such dynastic weight is worth noting.