Tribute-money
The coins of the British Prince Cunobelin were not only stamped with the figures of animals, but with the word tascio, which signified task, tax, and tribute. The payment of them into the Exchequer acquitted the subject of duties on merchandise, and was also a commutation of personal services. “I have thought,” says the learned Camden, “that in old time there was a certain sort of money coined on purpose for this use, seeing, in Scripture, it is called tribute-money; and I am the more confirmed in this opinion, because, in some of the British pieces, there is the Mint-master stamping the money with tascio, which among the Britons meant the tribute-money.”