Silver Unit - Sam Pentagram

The Cantii occupied what is now Kent — the first landing point for Julius Caesar's expeditions of 55 and 54 BC — and their coinage in the early first century AD reflects a tribe navigating Roman commercial pressure without yet falling under direct Roman administration. The "Sam Pentagram" classification is a VA catalog designation grouping issues attributed to a ruler or authority whose name remains partially reconstructed from coin inscriptions. Small, lightweight silver units of this type circulated in a regional economy already heavily penetrated by Roman trade goods before the Claudian conquest of 43 AD.