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Gold 1/4 Stater Gisleham Glory
| Issuer | Iceni tribe (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 15 BC - 20 AD |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Reverse description | A stylised horse prancing to the right, rendered in the characteristically abstract Celtic artistic idiom of the late Iron Age. The body is depicted with fluid, curvilinear lines, the mane shown as a series of arching strokes above the neck, and the legs articulated with exaggerated elegance. The field is filled with typical Iceni decorative elements including crescents, pellets, and scrollwork arranged around the horse. No inscription or legend is present, consistent with the uninscribed coinage of the Iceni tribal series. |
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| Mintage | ND (15 BC - 20 AD) |
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The Iceni occupied a client kingdom relationship with Rome during this period, paying tribute and maintaining nominal autonomy under rulers whose names occasionally appear on later coinage. The "Gisleham Glory" designation is a modern collector name derived from the Norfolk findspot type — these uninscribed or partially inscribed quarter staters circulated in the territory roughly corresponding to modern Norfolk and Suffolk, a region where metal detector finds have dramatically expanded the known corpus since the 1990s.
At 0.9g, the flan is barely enough gold to work with, and die alignment on this type is frequently eccentric — a structural feature of the series, not damage.