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Silver Unit Flower Face / Bury Type F
| Issuer | Iceni tribe (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 50 BC - 15 BC |
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| Currency | Stater |
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| Obverse description | Stylised Celtic head facing left, rendered in abstract curvilinear fashion characteristic of Icenian silver coinage. The face displays a prominent chin adorned with a stylised beard, a distinctive heart-shaped ear, and a diadem or torque-like band above the head. A flowering plant on a stem projects from the open mouth, serving as the defining iconographic feature of this 'Flower Face' type. The design is executed with fluid, abstract lines typical of Late Iron Age British celticised artistic tradition. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Iceni occupied what is now Norfolk and parts of Suffolk, and their coinage developed largely in isolation from the more Romanized tribes to the south. The Bury type series represents a late phase of Iceni silver production, issued in the decades immediately preceding the Roman conquest of Britain in 43 AD. These small, lightweight units were almost certainly struck as a fractional denomination within a broader value system that the Iceni maintained with notable consistency relative to their neighbors.
Van Arsdell 81 is among the scarcer attributed types within the Bury group. Find concentration clusters in east Suffolk and the Norfolk/Suffolk border region point to controlled local distribution rather than wide regional exchange.