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Gold 1/4 Stater Walsingham Wonder
| Issuer | Iceni tribe (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 15 BC - 20 AD |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Cruciform wreath design composed of four curved arms radiating from a central point, with two opposing hollow crescents positioned back-to-back at the centre. The quadrants formed by the crossed wreaths are filled with pellet-and-line decorative elements rendered in the typical Late Iron Age Celtic abstract style. The flan is irregular and slightly convex, characteristic of hammered Celtic gold coinage. No legends or inscriptions are present. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Iceni occupied what is now Norfolk and Suffolk, and their coinage — produced in the decades immediately before and after the Roman conquest of 43 AD — reflects a tribal economy sophisticated enough to mint fractional denominations for smaller transactions. The "Walsingham Wonder" designation derives from the find concentration around the Walsingham area of Norfolk, where metal detector recoveries have significantly shaped the known corpus of this type.
At 0.9 g, these fractions were struck from dies shared across a narrow window of production, and the type disappears entirely from the archaeological record following the Boudican revolt of 60–61 AD, after which Iceni political and monetary structures were permanently dismantled by Rome.