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Silver Unit Dead Head Left Type
| Issuer | Iceni tribe (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 15 BC - 20 AD |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | A stylised horse prances to the left, executed in the characteristic abstract Celtic manner with a pellet-formed mane and a disproportionately large, open head. Above the horse, a lozenge motif is placed prominently in the field, each of its four corners adorned with a pellet. Below the horse, a pellet-in-ring symbol occupies the lower field, serving as a decorative and possibly emblematic device. The composition is typical of the geometric and symbolic vocabulary employed on Icenic silver units of this series. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Iceni occupied what is now Norfolk and parts of Suffolk, and their silver coinage emerged in the final decades before the Roman conquest as tribal identity and inter-regional exchange intensified across eastern Britain. The "Dead Head" designation reflects a modern typological label, not a Celtic self-description — the classification system for this series was largely systematized by Allen and Van Arsdell working from hoard evidence, much of it concentrated in Norfolk find-spots.
The Iceni produced no coinage after Boudicca's revolt of 60–61 AD was suppressed, making the entire tribal series terminally bounded — every piece was struck within roughly a century.