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Potin Unit Nipples / Dump Type / Holman G3
| Issuer | Cantii tribe (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 60 BC - 45 BC |
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| Value | Potin Unit |
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| Obverse description | Highly schematised, crudely cast head in profile, facing left, right, or of indeterminate direction depending on die variety. The facial features are rendered in abstract Celtic style, with a prominent pellet set within a circular eye ring as the dominant design element. No head outline or peripheral border is present, reflecting the degenerate artistic tradition of the later Cantian potin series. The overall treatment is characteristic of the dump-type flan associated with the Holman G3 classification. |
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| Mintage | ND (60 BC - 45 BC) - G3/5-1 (Allen P2): Crude face profile left - ND (60 BC - 45 BC) - G3/6-1 (ABC 174, Allen P1): Crude face profile right. Crescent may appear above bull - ND (60 BC - 45 BC) - G3/6-2: Head right, no central pellet, may or may not have neck line - ND (60 BC - 45 BC) - G3/9-1: No face profile - ND (60 BC - 45 BC) - G3/9-2: No face profile or neckline, only central pellet and eye ring - |
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The Cantii occupied the territory of modern Kent, and their potin coinage was among the last indigenous struck — or rather, cast — currency produced in Britain before Caesar's expeditions of 55 and 54 BC disrupted the political fabric of the southeast. Whether production continued through that disruption or halted at it remains debated. The "dump" form, a thick irregular cast blank rather than a struck flan, places this among the cruder functional issues of the type, circulating alongside more refined coinage in a mixed economy that archaeologists have traced through oppida site assemblages across Kent and into Essex.