Gold Stater Freckenham Cross Wheel Type

The Freckenham Cross Wheel type takes its name from the Freckenham hoard, found in Suffolk in 1865, which contained over 150 gold staters and remains one of the most significant concentrations of Late Icenian coinage ever recovered. By the time these were struck, the Iceni were operating under client-kingdom arrangements with Rome following Caesar's expeditions, and gold coinage increasingly served internal tribal elite functions rather than broad exchange — explaining the relatively tight geographic distribution of finds.

Van Arsdell 624-01 is among the better-documented Late Icenian die links, with a small number of confirmed die-sharing relationships traceable across the ABC corpus.