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Silver Unit Crescent Corn Ears type
| Issuer | Iceni tribe |
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| Year | 20 BC - 40 AD |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | A stylised horse leaping to the left, rendered in the fluid, abstracted Celtic artistic tradition characteristic of Iceni coinage. A spoked wheel motif appears in the upper field above the horse's back, while a pellet-in-annulet device is placed beneath the animal in the lower field. A pellet is visible to the right of the horse's hindquarters. The flan is irregular in shape, consistent with hand-struck British Iron Age silver units of this period. No legend or inscription is present. |
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| Mintage | ND (20 BC - 40 AD) |
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The Iceni occupied what is now Norfolk and parts of Suffolk, operating as a client kingdom under early Roman provincial arrangements. Their silver coinage was struck independently — a privilege that survived Roman conquest in 43 AD for perhaps a decade before the administrative crackdowns that ultimately provoked Boudica's revolt in 60–61 AD. Whether this piece predates Roman arrival or belongs to that uneasy client-kingdom window is difficult to fix precisely, which is why the reference catalogs assign it such a broad date range.