Potin Unit Curved Bull

Potin coinage in Britain was not locally invented — it arrived as a concept from the Gallo-Belgic tradition, with the Cantii of southeast Kent among the earliest British tribes to adopt the cast alloy format. The "Curved Bull" type belongs to a transitional moment when indigenous British issues were beginning to diverge stylistically from their Continental prototypes, the bull motif degenerating across successive casting generations into increasingly abstract forms.

Cast rather than struck, which makes surface porosity and casting seams the relevant condition factors for this type — not wear patterns.