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Silver Unit 'Icenian D' - Cani Duro
| Issuer | Iceni tribe |
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| Year | 10-20 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse description | Stylised abstract face or head rendered in the Celtic artistic tradition, depicted in a highly schematic manner characteristic of Icenian coinage. The upper portion of the design features a row of prominent vertical elements surmounted by pellets, likely representing a stylised mane or hair. Below, the lower field is occupied by a simplified body or torso rendered with curvilinear lines and pellet ornaments. The entire composition is executed in low relief on an irregularly shaped flan typical of hammered British Iron Age silver coinage. |
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| Mintage | ND (10-20) |
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The Iceni occupied what is now Norfolk and parts of Suffolk, and their coinage circulated in a politically charged corner of late pre-Roman Britain. Cani Duro is among the named rulers — or possibly magistrates — attested only through coin legends, leaving their precise role within the tribal structure genuinely unresolved. The ABC 1630 classification places this within a tightly defined series distinguished by specific pellet arrangements that separate it from closely related Icenian issues sharing nearly identical fabric.