Silver Plated Unit - Antedios Antedios Antd D-Bar Contemporary Counterfeit

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.