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Silver Unit Icklingham Corn Ear
| Issuer | Iceni tribe (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 50 BC - 15 BC |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Reverse description | Stylised Celtic horse prancing to the left, rendered in the abstract Icenian tradition. The eye is indicated by a small ellipse, and the front forelegs are depicted as two parallel lines, a hallmark of this type. A pellet appears beneath the horse's head. Two concentric rings are positioned above the horse's back. Below the horse, a corn ear motif — a feather-like or ear-of-grain device — serves as the principal identifying feature of this Icklingham sub-type, lending the issue its name. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Iceni occupied what is now Norfolk and parts of Suffolk, and their silver coinage emerged during a period of intense cross-Channel contact with Belgic Gaul — the corn ear motif likely reflects both agricultural wealth and deliberate stylistic borrowing from continental issues. This particular unit belongs to a phase of Iceni production before Roman conquest formalized the tribe's political status, after which coinage continued under client-king arrangements until Prasutagus died and his widow Boudica led the revolt of 60–61 AD that burned Camulodunum, Londinium, and Verulamium to the ground.
Van Arsdell 1555 is among the smaller denominations in the Iceni silver sequence, struck at weights that suggest deliberate fractional valuation rather than debased production.