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Silver Unit Bury Roundels / Bury E
| Issuer | Iceni tribe (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 40 BC - 35 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Stylised female head facing right in the Celtic artistic tradition, featuring a sharply pointed nose, rounded chin, and a prominent ear. A diadem is rendered across the forehead, and the hair is depicted with characteristic Iron Age schematic detailing. Pellet-ring roundels are positioned in the field before the face, a typical decorative motif of Icenic coinage. |
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| Reverse description | A solid, stylised horse striding right with a distinctive leaf-shaped tail, rendered in the abstract Celtic manner characteristic of Icenic silver units. Above the horse, a scroll motif, a pellet-ringed pellet, and small ringed pellets are disposed across the field. A pellet-ringed pellet appears below the horse in the lower field. The design exhibits the geometric ornamentation typical of East Anglian Celtic coinage of the late pre-Roman period. |
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The Bury series of Iceni silver units belongs to a cluster of issues produced in what is now Suffolk and Norfolk during the decades immediately preceding the Claudian invasion, a period when tribal silver coinage in eastern Britain was proliferating rapidly under the influence of Gallo-Belgic imports. The Bury E specifically is documented through a tight geographic distribution of metal-detector finds, concentrated enough to suggest highly localized circulation — possibly within a single tribal sub-group or economic zone rather than across the Iceni territory at large.