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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Conduitt, post: 7766304, member: 109923&quot;]These potins are interesting both as Britain&#039;s first coins and because the design slowly developed from coins from the Greek colony of Massalia (Marseille).</p><p><br /></p><p>This is the type of coin the Cantii (from Kent) copied:</p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/upload_2020-8-10_20-4-53-png.1157679/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>Bronze hemiobol, 15mm, late 3rd to mid-2nd century BC, Massalia. Head of Apollo left. Bull butting right, MA above (for Massalia). Found in Kent.</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Over time, this design morphed into the rather abstract design found in the hoard:</p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/upload_2020-8-10_20-9-57-png.1157683/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>Potin, 85-50BC, Kent. Head of Apollo left. Bull butting right (S.63).</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Note: the obverse of the potin in the BBC photo has been rotated 90 degrees clockwise (it&#039;s meant to be Apollo), while the reverse is upside down (it&#039;s meant to be a charging bull).</p><p><br /></p><p>They were made quite some time before the Romans established themselves in Britain, but the coins show the influence the Romans were beginning to have through trade, at least in the far south east of England.</p><p><br /></p><p>I wrote about them here: <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/how-a-greek-god-inspired-the-first-british-coins.364799/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/how-a-greek-god-inspired-the-first-british-coins.364799/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/how-a-greek-god-inspired-the-first-british-coins.364799/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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