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Crab (CRAB) · c. AD 10–40
Name on Isle of Wight silver; nothing else known
is the name on two small silver issues, a with an eagle and a quarter-size , struck about AD 10–40 and found mostly on the Isle of Wight, with a few in Hampshire and Dorset. Evans took CRAB to be the beginning of a British ruler's name; nothing else is known of him. Catalogues place him differently: the and Van Arsdell file the coins with the of Dorset, with the southern series, and under the Isle of Wight. Silbury Coins calls them the only coins certainly made on the island, whose people are sometimes called the 'Vectuarii', a name first found in Bede.,,,,
Known for The only coins attributed to the Isle of Wight: a silver unit with a cross and eagle, and a minim with CRAB on a .
People Isle of Wight: The people of today's Isle of Wight, whose own name is not recorded (the Romans called the island Vectis); their coins sit between those of the Durotriges of Dorset and the and of Hampshire.,
Read more: Iron Age Coins in Britain: ABC 1385 · Wikipedia: Isle of Wight (history) · PAS record 953408 · Crab: all coins · Isle of Wight: all coins
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