Silver Unit - Esuprasto Sub Esuprasto Esico Fecit

The Iceni occupied what is now Norfolk and Suffolk, governing themselves through a loose tribal aristocracy that occasionally struck coinage in their own names — a practice that makes pieces like this one unusually personal documents. The inscription naming Esico as maker ("fecit") is rare on British Celtic coinage and suggests something closer to a craftsman's signature than a royal proclamation. Whether Esico was a moneyer operating under Esuprasto's authority or something more independent is unresolved.

The tribe would later be drawn into catastrophic conflict with Rome under Boudica, around 60-61 AD, after which Iceni coinage ceased entirely.