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1/4 Stater Yoke Sunflower
| Issuer | Cantii tribe (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 35 BC - 30 BC |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse description | Blank and uninscribed field, entirely devoid of design elements, characteristic of the Cantii quarter stater series in which the obverse serves as a plain die face. The surface bears the natural texture and irregular flan edges typical of hand-struck Celtic coinage of the late Iron Age. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Cantii occupied the southeastern corner of Britain — roughly modern Kent — and were among the tribes Julius Caesar encountered directly during his expeditions of 55 and 54 BC. This fractional issue belongs to the generation after that contact, when Cantian goldsmithing had absorbed continental Gaulish influences while retaining distinctly insular abstraction. Quarter staters of this type circulated as high-value fractions in a society where coinage was still largely embedded in elite gift exchange and mercenary payment rather than everyday commerce.
ABC 207 is a scarce variety. Die-linked specimens are known from a handful of metal-detector finds across Kent, nearly all recorded through the Portable Antiquities Scheme.