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Gold Stater Freckenham Crescents Moon Faces Type

Issuer Iceni tribe (Celtic Britain)
Year 15 BC - 20 AD
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Technique Hammered
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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 parts of Suffolk, and their gold stater series developed through progressive abstraction from imported Macedonian prototypes — by the time this type was struck, the original source imagery had been reduced over generations of copying into geometric fragments. The Freckenham hoard, discovered in Suffolk in 1885, gave this type its name and provided the primary reference assemblage for the late Icenian gold series.

These were struck in the final decades before Roman conquest fundamentally disrupted native coin production across southern and eastern Britain.

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