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Silver 1/2 Unit Stickman Boar
| Issuer | Iceni tribe (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 15 BC - 20 AD |
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| Currency | Stater |
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| Obverse description | Highly stylised Celtic boar depicted in right profile, rendered in the characteristic abstract La Tène artistic tradition. The boar displays a prominent pellet on the shoulder, an S-curved tail, and a single schematic foreleg. A row of elongated bristles — occasionally short — runs along the dorsal ridge, surmounted by rings above the back. A spear is depicted in the field before the animal. One or more pellets appear in the lower field. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Iceni occupied what is now Norfolk and Suffolk, and their tribal coinage circulated in a region that would remain nominally autonomous well into the Roman occupation — until Prasutagus died around 60 AD and Rome moved to annex his kingdom directly, triggering Boudicca's revolt. These small fractional units predate that catastrophe by decades, likely serving local exchange within a gift-economy framework where Roman denarii were already beginning to infiltrate the money supply.
The "stickman" classification reflects a regional die-cutting convention distinctive to later Iceni issues, in which the figure is rendered with an almost schematic economy of line.