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Silver Unit Muzzles
| Issuer | Cantii tribe (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 50 BC - 25 BC |
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| Value | Silver Unit |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (50 BC - 25 BC) |
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The Cantii occupied the territory of modern Kent — the closest point in Britain to the Continent — and their coinage reflects sustained commercial contact with Belgic Gaul rather than purely indigenous development. These small silver units circulated during a period of intense political disruption, bracketing Julius Caesar's two expeditions to Britain in 55 and 54 BC and their aftermath, when client relationships with Rome reshaped the tribal hierarchy across the southeast.
ABC 234 is attributed to the "Muzzles" type on the basis of the distinctive animal-head motif, one of several Cantian silver series distinguished typologically in the Abramson-Bateson-Cottam corpus.