Bronze Unit Bear and Bull

The Cantii occupied the territory now roughly equivalent to Kent, and by the mid-first century BC their coinage was being produced under pressure — Caesar's two invasions in 55 and 54 BC had imposed tribute obligations and reshaped political alliances across the southeast. Small bronze units like this one likely served local exchange rather than cross-tribal trade, circulating in a region that was by this period more commercially integrated with northern Gaul than most of Roman-era Britain would later become.

Van Arsdell's sequencing places this type among the later Cantian bronzes, after the adoption of more regular flan preparation.