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Bronze Unit 'Cantian D'

Issuer Cantii tribe
Year 90 BC - 50 BC
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Weight 1.6 g
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Edge Plain
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Mintage ND (90 BC - 50 BC)
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The Cantii occupied the southeastern corner of Britain — roughly modern Kent — and their bronze coinage circulated in a region that was among the most intensively traded with Gaul in the late Iron Age. These units were produced and used during a period when cross-Channel exchange with Belgic tribes was routine, and Gaulish coin types directly influenced local production. Caesar's two expeditions into Britain in 55 and 54 BC cut through Cantian territory specifically, and the disruption to tribal political structures in the decades following likely compressed or terminated local minting activity entirely.

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