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Potin Unit 'Trinovantian A'
| Issuer | Brittonic, Uncertain tribe |
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| Year | 100 BC - 90 BC |
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| Weight | 2.83 g |
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| Obverse description | Highly schematised and deeply cast head facing left, rendered in the characteristically crude Late Iron Age Brittonic style. Facial features are reduced to bold, abstract relief elements, with the eye indicated by a prominent central boss and the nose suggested by a vertical ridge descending through the field. The overall composition is strongly geometric, with concentric raised lines framing the visage, reflecting the degenerate tradition derived from earlier Gaulish prototypes. The flan is irregular and the surfaces bear the textured pitting typical of cast potin coinage. No legend or inscription is present. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Potin coinage in Britain wasn't locally invented — the technology and concept arrived from Gaulish neighbors, likely through the Thames estuary trade networks that connected southeastern tribes to continental markets before Caesar's expeditions complicated everything. The Trinovantian attribution remains disputed; "Trinovantian A" is a typological convenience, not a confirmed tribal assignment, and several scholars place production somewhere in Kent rather than Essex.
Cast rather than struck, which places it outside normal die-study analysis entirely.