Gold Stater Norfolk Wolf Left Pellet and Crescent

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.