Silver Unit - Touto Walking Victory

Most have Victory clasping a sword at the waist but a variety exists where he is holding a knobbed wand, sceptre of cudgel over his shoulder. In one of the latter examples he is also carrying a laurel wreath.

Van Arsdell Classification: Atrebatic H, Eppillus Kentish Types. Eppillus was king of the Atrebates and for a time had control of the Cantii.

According to Chris Rudd, Touto (meaning ‘tribe’ or ‘people’) was probably a minor Cantian king who ruled briefly under, with or after Eppillus. ‘E-P’ on the reverse might refer to Eppilus, suggesting Touto was one of his sons. However, it may instead be an issue of Eppilus, with Touto a currently undeciphered title. Indeed, Spink lists this coin as a 'joint type of Eppilus and Verica', both of whom were of the Atrebates tribe, while Van Arsdell attributes it to Eppillus of the Atrebates. Since all the findspots of this coin are in Kent, it is unlikely this coin is not from the Cantii, although there was a contemporaneous Cantian ruler called Eppillus who may have been the same person as Eppilus of the Atrebates.