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Tincomarus bull silver unit
Coin 18 · Tincomarus (Southern region: Atrebates and Regni)
A silver unit of Tincomarus with a bull, head lowered, on one face. The portrait face is worn almost smooth.
- Issuer or group
- Tincomarus (Southern region: Atrebates and Regni)
- Metal
- Silver unit
- Date (record)
- 25 BC–AD 10
- Catalogue refs (record)
- ABC 1112
- Specimen
- PAS 767785
- Specimen size
- Not in the record. The model is about 11.8 mm across, estimated from the scale in the photograph.
Obverse. Portrait (record); worn almost blank on this specimen. Not reconstructed
Reverse. Bull with lowered head, letters above, and a C-shaped mark and a pellet below.
Our type name comes from the research brief ('Charging Bull'). The specimen's own record calls the type 'Tincomarus Bull Left' (ABC 1112). The name needs checking before publication.
The obverse is worn almost blank, so the as-minted portrait is not reconstructed.
Features
| # | Feature | Face | As-minted evidence | On the found coin | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bull | Reverse | Observed in the photo | Survives on this find | The bull's body across the middle of the face, with its legs stretched out. |
| 2 | Lowered head | Reverse | Observed in the photo | Partly visible on this find | The bull's head at the left, held low. |
| 3 | Letters above | Reverse | Observed in the photo | Partly visible on this find | Upright letter strokes above the bull's back. |
| 4 | C-shaped mark | Reverse | Observed in the photo | Survives on this find | A curved C-shaped mark below the bull. |
| 5 | Pellet on a stem | Reverse | Observed in the photo | Survives on this find | A raised dot at the end of a curved stroke, below the bull. |
In the record but not modelled
- Portrait: The record names a portrait on the obverse; it is worn almost smooth on this specimen, so it is not marked or reconstructed.
The found specimen
- Wear
- Obverse worn almost smooth; reverse moderately worn, with the bull's outline clear.
- Corrosion
- Dark grey to brown surface, slightly granular.
- Strike
- Reverse design well placed; the letters above the bull run towards the edge.
- Completeness
- Complete; slightly irregular outline.
These are descriptions, not grades. Thickness in the model: inferred (no weight or thickness recorded): set to 8.5% of the diameter.
Source and licence
Based on a photograph by Katie Hinds / Hampshire Cultural Trust, via the Portable Antiquities Scheme and Wikimedia Commons (file page as retrieved, revision 930472275), licensed CC BY 2.0. Changes: the two faces were cut out of the photograph, rotated and rescaled to a common frame, and used to make an interpretive 3D reconstruction. Depth, the edge and unseen surfaces are inferred, not measured. The as-minted version is further cleaned, restored and recoloured by us.
SHA-256 of the archived original: ed8708bec976bbd0663f81ca0afee21fd64603f352c24db4f019ae07f35b77e9. Retrieved 2026-10-16.