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Gold 1/4 Stater Halesworth Horse
| Issuer | Iceni tribe (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 15 BC - 20 AD |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Stylised Celtic wreath design centred on a prominent ringed pellet enclosed within a raised concentric ring, forming the focal point of the composition. To each side, a beaded leaf motif — rendered in typical Late Iron Age abstract style — encloses a subsidiary ringed pellet or annulet. The overall design is highly schematised, characteristic of Icenian goldsmithing, with decorative elements arranged symmetrically around the central device. The irregular flan exhibits the typical characteristics of hand-struck Celtic coinage. No legend or inscription is present. |
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| Reverse description | A stylised horse facing left, rendered in the open-headed manner characteristic of Icenian Celtic coinage, with the head depicted as an open curve or arc rather than a fully detailed form. A prominent ringed pellet appears above the horse in the upper field, while a plain ring or annulet is placed below the body. Additional decorative pellets and linear elements fill the field, consistent with the abstract artistic vocabulary of Late Iron Age East Anglian coinage. The design is uninscribed, with the composition confined to the irregular flan typical of hammered Iron Age quarter staters. |
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The Iceni occupied what is now Norfolk and parts of Suffolk and Cambridgeshire, operating as a client kingdom under Roman tolerance until the death of Prasutagus in 60 AD triggered the catastrophic revolt of Boudicca. The Halesworth Horse type takes its name from the Suffolk find area, and the quarter stater denomination functioned within a gift and tribute economy as much as a commercial one — Celtic gold fractions of this size rarely changed hands in everyday exchange.
ABC 1468 is among the later Iceni struck gold issues, placing it in the decades when Roman monetary influence was already reshaping native coinage habits across the southeast.