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1/4 Stater Kentish Horse Brooch / South Thames Banded Type
| Issuer | Cantii tribe (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 35 BC - 30 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Reverse description | A stylised horse depicted in full gallop to the right, rendered in the distinctive La Tène Celtic artistic tradition, its body elongated and legs abstracted into dynamic curves. The horse is maneless, consistent with the Kentish Horse Brooch type, with the body articulated by a prominent raised spine. Above the horse appears a large U-shaped or open-ring motif, while pellets and curvilinear ornaments are distributed across the field, and a banded or segmented arc motif occupies the lower exergual area. The overall composition is lively and boldly modelled in high relief. |
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| Mintage | ND (35 BC - 30 BC) |
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The Cantii occupied what is now Kent and parts of Surrey and Essex — the tribes Caesar encountered directly during his expeditions of 55 and 54 BC. By the time this fractional stater was struck, roughly a generation had passed since that contact, and the Cantii had absorbed enough continental monetary practice to produce a relatively disciplined coinage by British Iron Age standards. The "South Thames Banded" designation reflects a modern distributional classification based on findspot clustering rather than any ancient administrative boundary.