Potin Unit Crescent Bull

The Cantii occupied what is now Kent, and their potin coinage was among the earliest struck — or rather cast — in Britain, predating the Roman invasion by generations. Potin itself is a tin-rich bronze alloy, and these pieces were produced by casting in strip moulds rather than striking, then snapped apart, which accounts for the irregular flan shapes almost universal to the type. ABC 168 sits within a sequence showing progressive schematization of the design across die generations, making die linkage studies unusually productive for this series.