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Gold Stater - Sam Hilton Wreath
| Issuer | Cantii tribe (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 1-15 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | A triple-line wreath occupies the obverse field, with the outer two lines formed of beaded pellets framing a plain central band. At the centre of the wreath a four-petalled flower motif is rendered in relief, serving as the principal decorative focus of the design. The composition is characteristic of Late Iron Age Celtic die-cutting in southeastern Britain, displaying the stylised vegetal ornament associated with the Cantian coinage tradition. |
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| Reverse description | A stylised horse prances to the left, rendered in the abstracted Celtic manner typical of Cantian staters of the early first century AD. Above the horse's back rises a fleur-de-lys-like symbol surmounted by a pellet triad. Beneath the horse a large wheel and a pentagram are prominently placed as subsidiary symbols in the lower field. A further pellet triad appears before the horse, with additional scattered pellets and annulets filling the surrounding field. |
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The Cantii occupied the territory of modern Kent — the most exposed corner of Britain to Continental influence and, after 43 AD, to Roman military pressure. This stater type, attributed by Sills as issue 89, belongs to the latest phase of Cantian gold coinage, struck in the decade or so before Roman administrative consolidation effectively ended autonomous tribal minting in the southeast. Whether production ceased by edict or simply by economic absorption is not recorded, but surviving examples are sparse enough to suggest a short run.