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Gold Stater - Ecen Ecen Ece Triple Moons
| Issuer | Iceni tribe (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 35-43 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Abstract Celtic design composed of three back-to-back outline crescents arranged symmetrically with points facing outward around a central pellet, a pellet occupying each cusp of the crescents. The entire motif is enclosed within a border of six arcs, each cusp of which contains a triad or lozenge arrangement of pellets. The composition is characteristic of late Iceni abstract art, with no figural imagery on this face. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The Ecen-inscribed staters represent the final phase of Iceni coinage before the Claudian invasion of 43 AD effectively ended indigenous coin production across southern Britain. "Ecen" is understood as a tribal identifier — one of the earliest instances of a British tribe naming itself on its own coinage — and appears across several die varieties in this closing period. Van Arsdell 759 is among the better-documented of these, though the precise sequence of the triple-inscription types relative to one another remains debated in the literature.
Gold fineness on late Iceni staters varies considerably by die, a known metallurgical inconsistency likely tied to disrupted supply lines as Roman military pressure mounted along the frontier.