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Description: | Fragment of an Iron Age silver unit of Amminus (probably Adminius), probably struck in Kent circa AD 38-40. See Rudd 38 (1998), no. 8 (probably same obverse die), Numismatic Circular, December 1992, p. 354, no. 7378, Numismatic Circular, July 1993, p. 188, no. 12.Rare coins of this type were attributed to Gaul in the 19th century, but the finding of several in Kent and Essex in recent years (at least 9 are on the Celtic Coin Index) does mean that we can associate Amminus with Adminius, the son of King Cunobelinus, as mentioned in Suetonius (Caligula 44). SEG or SEGO possibly means 'victor' or 'victorious'. The coin is copied from Roman Republican denarii, the reverse probably from an issue of A. Manlius Q. f. Sergianus, 118-107BC (RRC 309/1).
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