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Silver Plated Unit - Antedios Antedios Antd D-Bar Contemporary Counterfeit
| Issuer | Iceni tribe (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 20-35 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse lettering | T |
| Edge | Plain |
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Antedios ruled the Iceni in the decades following Tasciovanus, and his coinage — already light by the standards of earlier tribal issues — was apparently worth counterfeiting. This piece is a plated bronze core struck to pass as silver, a contemporary forgery produced and circulated within the tribe's own territory. The Iceni were not unusual in this: plated counterfeits appear across late Iron Age Britain wherever silver coinage had established enough trust to be worth faking.
The D-bar series to which the prototype belongs is among the more modestly produced Antedian issues, struck in the years before the Roman conquest reshaped Iceni political arrangements entirely.