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Silver Unit Kelling Boar
| Issuer | Iceni tribe (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 15 BC - 20 AD |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Stylised boar advancing to right in typical late Iron Age Celtic artistic convention, rendered with characteristic abstraction. The animal's prominent bristled back is depicted as a series of raised curved ridges, with a single pellet marking the eye positioned on the shoulder. A pellet rosette occupies the upper field above the boar's back, while an isolated pellet appears in the lower field beneath the animal's body. The flan is irregular and the design fills the available field with confident, schematic Celtic craftsmanship. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Iceni occupied what is now Norfolk and Suffolk, and their coinage — among the most sophisticated produced by any British tribe — circulated entirely without Roman authorization during a period when Rome was consolidating control over Gaul and eyeing Britain. The Kelling Boar series takes its name from a nineteenth-century hoard find in north Norfolk, which provided the type reference still used today.
Iceni silver units are notoriously difficult to attribute by find spot alone, as metal-detector recoveries continue to shift distribution maps. ABC 1585 remains one of the scarcer boar-type attributions within the broader Iceni series.