Silver 1/2 Unit - Ecen Mini Y Retro

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.