Silver Unit - Crab Crab Eagle

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.