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Gold Stater Freckenham Flower Daisy Wheel Type
| Issuer | Iceni tribe (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 15 BC - 20 AD |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | A large stylised three-petal flower occupies the central field, its petals radiating from a central pellet set within a ring. Four pellet-tipped spokes extend outward from the floral motif in a cross arrangement, with a plain curved line filling each of the four quadrants formed by the spoke cross. The design is executed in the characteristic Late Iron Age Celtic abstract style, with no legend or inscription. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Freckenham Flower types take their name from a hoard found in Freckenham, Suffolk — Iceni territory — which brought a concentrated group of these staters to light in the nineteenth century. By the late first century BC, the Iceni were operating under increasing pressure from Roman diplomatic and commercial networks pushing into eastern Britain, and gold coinage of this period likely functioned as much within elite gift exchange and tribute obligations as in anything resembling open-market trade. The Daisy Wheel variety is distinguished among the Freckenham group by its specific die treatment, catalogued discretely by Van Arsdell as 626-04.