Silver Minim - Epaticcus Bull and Eagle

Epaticcus ruled the Atrebates in the decades immediately before the Claudian invasion of 43 AD, during a period when his kingdom was actively encroaching on Catuvellaunian territory — a political pressure that makes the very survival of a functioning mint here remarkable. Minims of this scale were almost certainly not general-purpose coinage; at 0.2g they approach the lower physical limit for intentional silver striking, and their precise economic function remains genuinely unresolved among Iron Age specialists.