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Silver Plated Unit - Ecen Ecen Retro Contemporary Counterfeit
| Issuer | Iceni tribe (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 35-43 |
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| Weight | 1.25 g |
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| Reverse description | Reverse field displaying heavily worn and corroded surfaces on an irregular flan characteristic of Celtic hammered coinage. Faint traces of an abstract design are visible, consistent with the stylised Icenian artistic tradition associated with the ECE or ECEN type. The inscription ECE, referencing the tribal name of the Iceni, would be present on better-preserved specimens of this type. The silver plating has largely separated or worn away in areas, revealing the underlying bronze core, a feature diagnostic of contemporary plated forgeries of this issue. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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The Iceni occupied what is now Norfolk and parts of Suffolk, operating as a client kingdom under Roman oversight in the years immediately preceding the Claudian invasion of 43 AD. Silver-plated bronze forgeries of native coinage — produced contemporaneously rather than in later periods — circulated alongside genuine issues, suggesting a shortage of quality silver or deliberate debasement within the tribe's own monetary system. Whether these were sanctioned by Icenian authorities or produced by independent forgers is unresolved.
The "retro contemporary" classification matters: this is not a modern fake but a period piece, struck within the same approximate window as the prototype it imitates.