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Bronze Unit - Dias Dias Centaur
| Issuer | Catuvellauni and Trinovantes tribes (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 1-10 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Bearded male head facing right, rendered in a romanised Celtic style with short cropped hair, interpreted as Hercules. The legend TASC DIAS is disposed around the periphery of the flan in Latin characters, referencing the issuing authority Tasciovanus. The portrait exhibits a bold, somewhat schematic treatment typical of late Iron Age British coinage under Roman cultural influence. The field around the head is largely plain, with the irregular flan edge characteristic of hand-struck Celtic bronzes. |
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| Obverse lettering | TASC DIAS |
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The Catuvellauni, under Cunobelin, absorbed the Trinovantes sometime around the turn of the first century AD, creating a joint political entity that struck coinage across multiple denominations and types. The "Dias" attribution places this unit within a specific sub-series identified by scholars working from findspot clusters concentrated around Camulodunum — modern Colchester — which served as the tribal capital and primary mint site. Small bronzes of this weight class circulated at the lowest transactional level, and metal detector recovery remains the dominant source for surviving examples, most found in Essex and Hertfordshire.