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Gold 1/4 Stater Irstead Trefoil
| Issuer | Iceni tribe (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 15 BC - 20 AD |
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| Composition | Gold |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (15 BC - 20 AD) |
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The Iceni occupied what is now Norfolk and Suffolk, and their coinage — produced without a mint in any urban sense — was likely struck by itinerant craftsmen serving tribal leadership. The Irstead Trefoil type takes its name from the Norfolk parish where a significant concentration of examples has been found, almost certainly reflecting a discrete area of tribal activity or exchange rather than random loss.
Caesar's expeditions of 55–54 BC had already brought British tribes into Rome's economic orbit decades before this type was struck, and the Iceni's gold coinage partly reflects that contact — progressively abstract designs derived from earlier Gallo-Belgic prototypes filtering through generations of local reinterpretation.