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Silver 1/2 Unit - Ecen Mini Y Retro
| Issuer | Iceni tribe (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 35-43 |
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| Diameter | 11 mm |
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| Reverse description | A stylized horse prancing to the left, rendered in the distinctive schematic manner of Iceni coinage, with a solid pellet head and a rein line extending between the chest and nose. Above the horse, a triquetra motif is flanked by pellet triads on either side. Below or around the central design, a retrograde inscription in degraded Latin letters reads ECE, referencing the tribal name Ecen, consistent with coins attributed to the Iceni in the period immediately preceding the Roman conquest. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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The Iceni occupied what is now Norfolk and northern Suffolk, maintaining a degree of autonomy under Roman client-king arrangements until the catastrophic events following Prasutagus's death in 60 AD precipitated Boudica's revolt. Coins attributed to the "Ecen Mini" inscription — one of the few named Celtic British issues — place the issuing authority explicitly within a tribal identity at a moment when Roman administrative pressure was intensifying across the southeast.
ABC 1696 sits in a cluster of fractional silver issues whose precise sequence remains contested among specialists. The "Y Retro" designation refers to a retrograde letter variant, a detail that has helped numismatists begin separating individual die phases within what was once treated as a single homogeneous type.