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Silver Unit 'Cantian J' SA
| Issuer | Cantii tribe |
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| Year | 1-10 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse lettering | SA |
| Reverse description | A griffin or horse-like creature shown in left profile, head turned back to look over its shoulder in a retrograde pose, rendered in the stylised Celtic manner typical of Cantian coinage. A ring-pellet motif is placed above the creature in the field. The legend 'SA' appears below, in Latin characters. The design is characteristically abstract, with the animal's body composed of flowing, curvilinear forms consistent with the broader corpus of Cantii silver unit coinage. |
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The Cantii, whose territory covered roughly modern Kent, were among the most Romanized of the British tribes even before the Claudian invasion of 43 AD. Caesar had dealt with them directly during his expeditions of 55 and 54 BC, and by the early first century their coinage reflects sustained cross-Channel contact — lighter, more debased silver units replacing the heavier gold-dominant issues of the preceding generation. The 'J' classification within the Cantian series denotes a specific die grouping established by Chris Rudd's ABC typology, distinguishing it from the broader Cantian silver output by subtle but consistent stylistic traits.