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Silver Plated Unit - Antedios Antd D-Bar Retro Contemporary Counterfeit
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| Year | 25-30 |
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| Currency | Stater |
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| Reverse lettering | ANTĐ |
| Edge | Plain |
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Antedios was a ruler of the Iceni in what is now Norfolk, active in the early first century AD and known primarily through his coinage. This piece falls into a murky modern category: retro contemporary counterfeits, sometimes called "ancient-style forgeries," were produced not to deceive collectors of antiquities but often circulated as functional substitutes or votive pieces in their own time — the distinction between imitation and official issue was rarely clean in late Iron Age Britain.
The silver plating over bronze core places it in a long tradition of ancient fourrées, though whether this was deliberate debasement or a later fabrication remains genuinely contested.