Regini & Atrebates Tincomarus c. 25 BC-AD 10 Tincomarus Alton Gold Stater *Extremely Rare*
£6,750.00
Regini & Atrebates
Tincomarus c. 25 BC-AD 10 Tincomarus Alton Gold Stater
Extremely Rare
ABC 1052, 20mm, 5.41g
Obverse
Celticised Apollo right. Wreath with inside end of leaves pointing downwards. Hairbar (spike) with pellets at the start and middle and ending in an arc (hook) with a further arc below. Two linear crescents to the left (above and below the hairbar) joined by reversed crescent behind the bar, with additional crescents above and below. Muzzles above and below displaced. Three linear crescents (curls) to the right, with the rear crescent attached to the wreath by two bars. Ring or pellet near hook.
Reverse
Triple-tailed horse right with wide, rounded base to neck, vertical double-ear (like an 8). Charioteer’s arm (long, serpent-like motif with beaded body) and inscription above in two lines, then continuing below and in front of horse TINC O MA RVS. Trefoil in front of neck, zigzag line in exergue.
Sills DK 327 (1 obverse, 3 reverse dies): Southern Coinage; Tincomarus; Staters: Class 1 – Alton. Obverse as Commios (ABC 1022) but with additional crescents and displaced, unrecognisable muzzles. Higher weight than the Alfriston (ABC 1049) and stylistically different, and presumably earlier.
Sills has the Alton stater, the Crescent quarter (ABC 1070) and the Boar Star unit (ABC 1103) as equivalents, all of which follow on from the A Type quarter (Sills 338) and Ladder Head (ABC 1097). The fine style places Alton with the A Type (ABC 1031 and Sills 338), Crescent quarter (ABC 1070), Ladder Head and Boar Star, which were later copied in cruder style. Crescent was followed by Tincom Commi (ABC 1073), while Boar Star was followed by Diadem silver (ABC 1100). Sills suggests the finer coins were engraved by a peripatetic engraver from Gaul, copied by local craftsmen.
Sills chronology: Gallo-Belgic Ca – Insular Cf / Aa Westerham – British Ad – British Q and L – British Qa-b Derivatives – Commios – Tincomarus.
Provenance
This coin is from The London Collection of Ancient British Coins. For more information click here: The London Collection – Silbury Coins : Silbury Coins.
C Rudd FPL 98, no 20. Found Newchurch, Isle of Wight. CCI 08.9017
This coin comes with a previous label.
Tincomarus (25 BC–AD 10?)
Striking both in gold and silver, Tincomarus is notable in that he is one of several Atrebatic rulers to style himself ‘COM F’ on coinage – an abbreviation of the Latin Commii Filius (‘son of Commius’). His issues are highly variable, being divided into no fewer than four different styles. These demonstrate a clear shift from indigenous art-styles towards Classically-influenced motifs, which often employ designs derived from contemporary Roman prototypes. The latter has been suggested as evidence that Tincomarus spent time in Rome as a hostage, which in all likelihood exposed him to a plethora of Classical art in various mediums. No finer example of this exists in his coinage than the so-called ‘Tincomarus Warrior’ staters (e.g. ABC 1061/BMC 767–8), the reverse featuring an equestrian design lifted directly from Republican denarii of 82 BC, struck by the moneyer P. Crepusius. He appears in Augustus’ Res Gestae, being named as a suppliant British king alongside the Kentish Dubnovellaunos.
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