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COIN
Unique ID: KENT-1695AB
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
An Iron Age cast copper-alloy potin (Thurrock type) of the Cantiaci / Kent / South-Eastern, dating to the later 2nd century BC (Reece Period 1). Obverse: Head of Apollo left; reverse: Butting bull. c. 150-100 BC.
Notes:
Recorded by club recorder. Not seen by FLO
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: IRON AGE
Period from: IRON AGE
Period to: IRON AGE
Date from: Circa 150 BC
Date to: Exactly 100 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Weight: 3.5 g
Diameter: 17.9 mm
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
Coin data (numismatics)
Denomination: Potin (Cast bronze)
Tribe: Cantii
Geographic provenance: British South Eastern
Obverse description: Degraded head of Apollo left, in dished flan with pronounced casting sprue
Reverse description: Degraded bull butting right on exergual line
Status: Regular
Status qualifier: Certain
Coin references
No coin references available.
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Kent (County)
District: Dover (District)
Parish or ward: Sutton (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TR3149
Four figure Latitude: 51.19350308
Four figure longitude: 1.3047073
1:25K map: TR3149
1:10K map: TR34NW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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