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.
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.