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Gold Stater Freckenham Cross Crown Type
| Issuer | Iceni tribe (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 15 BC - 20 AD |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Plain, largely uninscribed field bearing a pellet cross design with a pellet-in-ring motif at the centre, characteristic of the Late Iron Age Icenian abstract decorative tradition. The concentric ring element is rendered in low relief against the irregular flan, with scattered pellets arranged in a cross formation radiating from the central annulet. The overall composition reflects the highly stylised, non-figurative obverse type associated with the Freckenham series of Icenian gold coinage. |
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| Mintage | ND (15 BC - 20 AD) |
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The Freckenham group of Iceni gold staters takes its name from the Suffolk hoard discovered in 1867, which brought a coherent typological family into focus for the first time. The Iceni occupied what is now Norfolk and Suffolk, and their coinage — produced without a centralised mint in any Roman sense — circulated through a tribal economy that Rome tolerated, then dismantled. After the Claudian invasion of 43 AD, client-king arrangements briefly preserved Iceni autonomy, but the tribe's gold coinage had effectively ceased before that accommodation was even reached.
Van Arsdell 624-04 is among the finer die-linked varieties within the Freckenham sequence.