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Bronze Unit Long-legged Horse

Issuer Cantii tribe (Celtic Britain)
Year 50 BC - 25 BC
Type Standard circulation coin
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Edge Plain
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Mintage ND (50 BC - 25 BC)
Additional information

The Cantii occupied the territory of modern Kent — the closest point of Britain to the Continent — and were among the tribes Julius Caesar encountered directly during his expeditions of 55 and 54 BC. Whether this issue predates or postdates that contact is genuinely uncertain, but Cantian bronze coinage of this period reflects accelerating exposure to Gallo-Belgic monetary practice without wholesale adoption of it. ABC 261 is attributed on the basis of find distribution concentrated in Kent, with metal analysis supporting local production rather than import.

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