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Gold 1/4 Stater Irstead Trefoil One Dot
| Issuer | Iceni tribe (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 5 BC - 5 AD |
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| Weight | 0.9 g |
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| Obverse description | Central latticed or cross-hatched square motif flanked by two opposed crescents forming a symmetrical composition. A projecting branch-like appendage extends from both the upper and lower registers of the design. A single pellet is positioned above and below the crescent pair, serving as decorative field markers characteristic of late Iron Age Iceni coinage. |
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| Mintage | ND (5 BC - 5 AD) |
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The Iceni occupied what is now Norfolk and Suffolk, and their coinage developed largely in isolation from the more Gallo-Belgic influenced issues further south — a product of geography and tribal politics rather than ignorance of continental practice. Quarter staters of this type were almost certainly not used in everyday exchange; the weight and gold content point toward gift exchange, tribute, or warrior reward as the more plausible function.
The "Irstead Trefoil" designation derives from the find concentration around the Irstead area of Norfolk, where metal detector recoveries have provided the bulk of known specimens for die study.