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Silver Plated Unit Norfolk Boar Phallic Contemporary Counterfeit
| Issuer | Iceni tribe (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 15 BC - 20 AD |
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| Currency | Stater |
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| Reverse description | Disjointed Celtic horse prancing right, with a large pellet rendering the eye in characteristic Iron Age style. Pellet triads are disposed on either side of a four-spoked wheel motif positioned above the horse. Below the horse, a phallic symbol is formed by a grouping of five pellets accompanied by a cotter-pin shaped linear element, flanked by an additional pellet triad, reflecting the fertility and apotropaic iconographic conventions of Icenic coinage. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Contemporary counterfeits of Iceni coinage are rarely dismissed as mere criminal opportunism — in a tribal economy where bullion content mattered far less than token authority, the line between official issue and local imitation was genuinely blurred. This plated example belongs to a class of forgeries produced within the circulation period itself, not centuries later, meaning it passed through the same hands and markets as the genuine article.
The phallic type is among the more regionally specific Iceni varieties, concentrated in Norfolk findspot distributions and likely tied to a particular sub-tribal group or administrative moment within the broader Iceni confederation before the Boudiccan revolt reorganized everything.