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Silver Unit - Crab Crab Eagle
| Issuer | Atrebates and Regini tribes (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 10-45 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Two crossed wreaths forming a cruciform pattern dividing the field into four angles, with a pellet-in-ring motif at the centre intersection. Pellets are distributed within the angles of the cross, and the Latin inscription CRAB appears distributed across the four quarters. The design is executed in a characteristically schematic Celtic style on a small, irregularly flan. |
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| Reverse description | An eagle depicted standing to the left with its head turned back to the right, rendered in a stylised Celtic manner typical of Late Iron Age British coinage of the Atrebates and Regini. The bird's wings are folded, and the overall composition is bold and schematic, filling the compact flan. The field around the eagle is plain. |
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The Atrebates and Regini occupied a broad swathe of southern Britain stretching from modern Hampshire into Sussex, and their coinage in the final decades before the Claudian invasion of 43 AD reflects a tribe increasingly entangled with Roman commercial networks across the Channel. These lightweight silver units — fractional in function — circulated alongside larger gold and silver denominations in a regional economy where Roman goods, wine amphorae among them, were arriving in exchange for slaves, cattle, and grain. The die-cutting on pieces of this type is notably compact given the small flan, a technical constraint that pushed engravers toward abstracted imagery.