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Silver Unit - Tasciovanos Tasciovanos Crescent
| Issuer | Catuvellauni and Trinovantes tribes (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 15 BC - 10 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Tasciovanos ruled the Catuvellauni from roughly the late first century BC, likely from Verulamium, and was probably the father of Cunobelin — the historical figure behind Shakespeare's Cymbeline. His coinage marks a critical administrative shift: the adoption of named ruler coinage among the Catuvellauni, borrowing the practice from Gallo-Belgic imports flooding southeastern Britain in the decades before Caesar's expeditions reshaped continental trade routes.
The crescent type is one of several distinct unit varieties attributed to his reign, differentiated by symbol rather than by text variation. ABC 2613 sits in a tightly clustered typological group whose internal sequencing remains contested among specialists.