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Silver 1/2 Unit Four Bucrania
| Issuer | Cantii tribe (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 50 BC - 25 BC |
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| Value | Silver 1/2 Unit |
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| Reverse description | A stylized horse advancing to the left, depicted in the abstracted curvilinear manner typical of Cantian Celtic coinage, with a beaded mane rendered as a row of pellets along the neck. The field is populated with numerous small rings and ringed pellets scattered around the horse, filling the available space in keeping with the decorative horror vacui aesthetic of Iron Age British coinage. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Cantii occupied the southeastern corner of Britain — roughly modern Kent — and were among the tribes Caesar encountered directly during his expeditions of 55 and 54 BC. This fractional denomination served small-scale exchange in a regional economy still calibrating itself to coined money, likely alongside uninscribed gold staters of far higher value. The bucrania motif on issues of this type has parallels in continental Belgic coinage, reflecting the persistent cross-Channel cultural ties that Roman writers noted and Roman generals exploited.