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Gold Stater Snettisham Fewer Pellets Type
| Issuer | Iceni tribe (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 15 BC - 5 AD |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Essentially plain, convex field bearing faint vestigial traces of a crossed-wreath pattern derived from the Gallo-Belgic prototype. Three curved lines are discernible in low relief across the surface, representing the highly abstracted remnants of a laureate wreath design. The die-work is minimally decorated, consistent with the late Celtic coinage tradition of the Iceni, where the original Hellenistic imagery has been reduced to near-abstraction. No inscription or legend is present. |
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| Reverse description | A highly stylised Celtic horse is depicted advancing to the right, rendered in the abstract curvilinear manner characteristic of Iceni coinage. The horse features a small open head, a beaded mane, a pronounced double tail, and a doubled upper left foreleg. Above the horse, pellets and a pellet-in-ring motif are arranged in the field. Below the horse, a pellet-in-ring device is surrounded by a ring of pellets, serving as a key diagnostic feature of this Snettisham Fewer Pellets type. No legend or inscription is present. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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