Catalog
Gold Stater Snettisham Multi Pellets Type
| Issuer | Iceni tribe (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 15 BC - 5 AD |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse description | Blank or nearly plain convex field derived from the wreath of the Gallo-Belgic prototype, retaining only a highly abstracted residual design. The surface is dominated by a broad, smooth, dished flan with a distinctive arrangement of multiple pellets forming a loose diagonal or cross-shaped grouping across the central field. No inscriptions or recognizable figural elements are present; the design has been reduced to its most abstract Celtic form, characteristic of the Snettisham Multi Pellets series. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Iceni occupied what is now Norfolk and Suffolk, and their coinage developed largely independent of Gaulish influence — a regional tradition that makes typing their staters genuinely difficult. The "Multi Pellets" designation within ABC 1405 refers to a specific reverse die characteristic used to differentiate sub-types within the broader Snettisham series, itself named after the Norfolk hoard site where a concentration of related material was recovered in the mid-twentieth century.
Iceni gold was struck in the years before the Claudian invasion of 43 AD rendered tribal coinage politically obsolete almost overnight.