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Silver Unit - Ale Scavo Alii Scavo
| Issuer | Iceni tribe (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 35-45 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A horse prances right in the distinctive linear Celtic idiom, with limbs rendered in stylised geometric form typical of late Iceni coinage. Four pellets arranged around a central pellet-in-ring device occupy the upper field above the horse. The royal inscription is placed below the animal in two registers, identifying the issuing authority. |
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The Iceni occupied what is now Norfolk and parts of Suffolk, and their coinage — produced in the decades immediately before the Roman conquest of 43 AD — reflects a tribe still functioning as an independent political unit with control over local silver supplies. The "Ale Scavo Alii Scavo" inscription type is among the named-authority issues that numismatists have long debated: whether these names represent rulers, moneyers, or ritual formulae remains unresolved.
ABC 1705 sits in a tight cluster of related inscribed types that appear only in the final pre-conquest phase of Iceni production.