Silver Unit Dead Head Sun Type

The Iceni occupied what is now Norfolk and northern Suffolk, a client kingdom that maintained uneasy accommodation with Rome following the invasion of 43 AD. This type belongs to the late phase of Iceni silver coinage, produced during a period when the tribe retained nominal autonomy while Roman commercial and political pressure steadily eroded it. The monetary system these coins served would collapse entirely with the death of Prasutagus around 60 AD and the catastrophic revolt of his widow Boudica, which Roman forces suppressed with a ferocity that effectively ended independent Iceni political life.