Tincomarus was the first British ruler to use the Latin form of his name on coinage, a calculated signal of Roman alignment that likely reflects the political fallout following his father Commius's long antagonism toward Caesar. He eventually fled to Rome as a suppliant — recorded by Augustus in the Res Gestae — making him one of the very few Iron Age British rulers attested in Roman imperial documentation.
Tincomarus was the first British ruler to use the Latin form of his name on coinage, a calculated signal of Roman alignment that likely reflects the political fallout following his father Commius's long antagonism toward Caesar. He eventually fled to Rome as a suppliant — recorded by Augustus in the Res Gestae — making him one of the very few Iron Age British rulers attested in Roman imperial documentation.