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Stater 'Trinovantian N' - Tasciovanus
| Issuer | Catuvellauni tribe |
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| Year | 20 BC - 10 AD |
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| Value | Gold Stater (1) |
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| Obverse description | Blank uninscribed obverse of Late Iron Age Celtic style, featuring two crossed wreaths, one of which is curved, with a pair of back-to-back thick crescents at the centre separated by three pellets. Stylised abstract faces occupy the four angles formed by the crossing wreaths. The overall composition reflects the characteristically fragmented and abstracted Gallo-Belgic artistic tradition as adapted by Catuvellaunian die-cutters. |
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| Reverse lettering | TASC |
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Tasciovanus ruled the Catuvellauni from a base at Verulamium — modern St Albans — and his gold staters represent the most prolific and typologically varied coinage produced in pre-Roman Britain. The 'Trinovantian N' classification reflects longstanding debate about whether certain Tasciovanian issues were struck in former Trinovantian territory following his contested expansion eastward, possibly into Camulodunum, before Roman diplomatic pressure forced a withdrawal. That territorial ambition is embedded in the numismatic record itself: mint attributions for this type remain disputed precisely because the political boundaries were never stable.