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Gold Stater Norfolk Wolf Left Pellet and Crescent
| Issuer | Iceni tribe (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 50 BC - 15 BC |
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| Currency | Stater |
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| Obverse description | Highly stylised and abstracted derivation of the laureate head of Apollo, rendered in the Celtic idiom with fragmented wreath elements appearing as pellets and lines oriented upward or downward, flanked by crescentic forms and a draped cloak motif. The design, executed in the characteristic late Iron Age British style, retains vestigial classical elements that have been progressively geometricised through successive die-copying. The field is plain, and the coin fabric is irregular, consistent with hand-struck Celtic staters of the Norfolk Wolf series. |
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| Mintage | ND (50 BC - 15 BC) |
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The Iceni occupied what is now Norfolk and Suffolk, and their coinage emerged partly through contact with Belgic tribes crossing from the continent — not from Roman influence, which came later. This specific type, classified under Van Arsdell 610, belongs to a period when the tribe maintained genuine political independence, decades before Prasutagus's client-kingdom arrangement with Rome and the catastrophic revolt of Boudicca in 60–61 AD. The pellet and crescent are regional die markers distinguishing Norfolk production from related Suffolk types, a distinction that matters for provenance work on metal-detected finds.