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Silver Unit - Tasciovanos Tasciovanos Cavalryman
| Issuer | Catuvellauni and Trinovantes tribes (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 15 BC - 10 BC |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse description | Abbreviated royal legend TASC inscribed in raised Latin letters within a rectilinear panel defined by two horizontal ruled lines, the whole set against a plain field. The border of the flan is undecorated, consistent with the abbreviated Celtic epigraphic style adopted by Tasciovanos in imitation of Roman coin design conventions. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Tasciovanos ruled the Catuvellauni from approximately 20 BC to 10 AD, making him one of the most powerful rulers in pre-Roman Britain and the father of Cunobelinus — the king Shakespeare loosely adapted into Cymbeline. His silver coinage marks a significant expansion of the Catuvellaunian monetary system, likely reflecting increased cross-Channel trade with Gaul and the growing influence of Roman economic practice filtering north through the tribal networks of southeast Britain. ABC 2640 is among the earlier attributions within his reign sequence.