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Potin Unit Angular Bull / Holman F3
| Issuer | Cantii tribe (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 75 BC - 55 BC |
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| Weight | 1.6 g |
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| Reverse description | Schematised bull standing left or right, rendered in a bold angular outline style with a characteristically straight back and tail, consistent with the Holman F3 type classification. Two crescents are placed above the bull's body, a standard decorative element of this series. A ground line or exergual line appears below the animal. Depending on the sub-variety, the tail may be straight or slightly curved, and the bull may face either direction; some examples exhibit tail-like projections at both ends of the body. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Cantii occupied the territory of modern Kent and were among the tribes Caesar encountered directly during his expeditions of 55 and 54 BC — making this coin potentially contemporary with the first Roman boots on British soil. Potin, a cast tin-bronze alloy, was the dominant coinage technology among the Cantii before struck silver became widespread, and the angular bull type is one of the more stylistically degenerate terminal forms in the sequence, suggesting late production within the series.
Holman's typology places F3 toward the end of the casting sequence based on fabric degradation and module reduction across known examples.