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Stater Ornamented Type
| Issuer | Cantii tribe (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 50 BC - 45 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (50 BC - 45 BC) |
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The Cantii occupied the southeast corner of Britain — roughly modern Kent — and were among the tribes Caesar encountered directly during his second expedition in 54 BC. This stater type postdates that contact, and the increasingly abstract style reflects not artistic decline but a deliberate regional tradition that had been diverging from continental Gaulish prototypes for generations. The Cantii issued several distinct stater varieties across a compressed timeframe, likely tied to the political fragmentation Caesar himself documented: he noted the tribe was then ruled by four separate kings simultaneously.