Silver Unit - Tasciovanos Tasciovanos Eagle Griffin

Tasciovanos ruled the Catuvellauni from a mint at Verulamium — modern St Albans — making this among the earliest coins struck at a site that would become a major Roman municipium within a generation of his death. His output shows deliberate engagement with Roman iconographic and technical conventions, almost certainly a political calculation as Caesar's incursions of 55 and 54 BC had demonstrated what Roman displeasure could cost. The griffin and eagle pairing on this unit belongs to a specific die group within his silver series distinguished by unusually high silver fineness for British Celtic issues of the period.