Silver Unit - Tincomarus Tincomarus Prancing Lion

Tincomarus was the son of Commius, the Atrebatic king who had served Julius Caesar as an envoy before spectacularly turning against Rome and fleeing to Britain around 51 BC. The prancing lion type is associated with Tincomarus's early coinage, before his stylistic shift toward overtly Roman imagery — a shift so pronounced it suggests direct diplomatic contact with Augustus, possibly connected to an embassy the Roman geographer Strabo records as arriving from Britain during this period. Tincomarus was eventually expelled, probably by his brother Eppillus, and fled to Rome, where he appears in the Res Gestae among the foreign suppliants received by Augustus.