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Gold Stater Freckenham Crescents Step
| Issuer | Iceni tribe (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 5-10 |
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| Value | Stater (1) |
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| Reverse description | A stylised horse passant to the right occupies the central field, rendered in the abstract Celtic artistic tradition characteristic of Icenian coinage. The horse's head is large and rounded, with an avian or bird-like form and a closed mouth. Above the horse, a pelleted ringed pellet (rosette motif) and a pellet ring encircling a central pellet (daisy motif) are disposed in the field, with an additional ringed pellet completing the upper arrangement. A further daisy motif appears below the horse. The exergue is defined by a series of horizontal lines crossed by vertical bars, forming a ladder-like pattern. |
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| Mintage | ND (5-10) |
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The Iceni occupied what is now Norfolk and parts of Suffolk, and their coinage tradition developed largely in isolation from Continental Gaulish influences — producing a distinctive regional series identifiable by progressive abstraction of the original Macedonian stater prototype. The "Freckenham Crescents" variety takes its name from a Suffolk hoard discovered in the nineteenth century, one of several East Anglian hoards that defined the typological sequence for this series.
Struck in the decade or so before the Claudian invasion of 43 AD, these pieces circulated within a tribal economy that the Romans would soon forcibly absorb — a disruption that effectively ended Iceni coin production within a generation.