Silver Unit - Tasciovanos Bearded Horseman

Tasciovanos ruled the Catuvellauni from roughly the late first century BC, operating out of Verulamium — present-day St Albans — and was likely the father of Cunobelin, the king Shakespeare loosely immortalized as Cymbeline. His coinage is among the earliest struck silver in the British Iron Age, drawing directly on Gallo-Belgic traditions but increasingly asserting a distinct local identity. The bearded horseman type is one of several distinct issues attributed to his reign, differentiated by Van Arsdell and Spink classification rather than any mint record.