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Silver ½ Unit Pickenham Flower
| Issuer | Iceni tribe (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 10-20 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Stylised abstract floral or rosette motif occupying the full field, rendered in the distinctive Celtic curvilinear tradition. Radiating pellet-tipped lines emanate from a central pellet, forming a wheel or flower-like design characteristic of the Icenic Pickenham Flower type. The composition is entirely aniconographic, with no legend or inscription. The flan is small and irregularly shaped, consistent with hand-struck Celtic minor coinage of the early first century AD. Surface texture is granular and slightly porous, reflecting the silver alloy and hammered production technique. |
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| Mintage | ND (10-20) |
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The Iceni occupied what is now Norfolk and Suffolk, and their silver fractional coinage — struck in the decades before Boudica's revolt of 60-61 AD — circulated within a tribal economy that was already deeply entangled with Roman commercial networks crossing the North Sea. The Pickenham series is named for the Norfolk find-spot where concentrations of this type first brought it to scholarly attention.
At 0.17 g, these fractions were among the smallest silver coins in circulation anywhere in the ancient world at the time of issue.