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Gold Stater Freckenham Flower Big Wheel Type
| Issuer | Iceni tribe (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 15 BC - 20 AD |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Reverse description | A stylised horse prances to the right, depicted in the highly abstracted manner typical of Icenian gold coinage, with a notably large open head rendered in bold relief. Above the horse, a large wheel motif with more than four spokes dominates the upper field, a characteristic symbol of Late Iron Age Celtic iconography. Beneath the horse, a pellet rosette — commonly described as a daisy — occupies the lower field. The composition is arranged within an irregularly shaped flan, consistent with the hand-struck technique of the period. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Freckenham Flower types are attributed to the Iceni of what is now Norfolk and Suffolk, a tribe whose coinage tradition developed largely through contact with the Belgic tribes crossing from Gaul rather than direct Roman influence. The "Big Wheel" designation distinguishes this die variety from the related Freckenham types by the prominent radiating pattern on the reverse, a distinction formalized by Van Arsdell in his 1989 corpus.
Many Iceni staters enter the record as hoard finds rather than excavation finds — the Freckenham hoard itself, discovered in Suffolk, gave this flower series its name.