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Silver Unit Mildenhall Silver
| Issuer | Iceni tribe (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 25 BC - 20 BC |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Reverse description | A stylised horse advancing to the left, rendered in the abstract Celtic artistic tradition. The head is solid with an elongated snout and a prominent large ear, surmounted by a spiky, exaggerated mane. Above the horse, a pellet enclosed within a ring of pellets is accompanied by a ringed pellet and a triad of pellets. Ringed pellets are positioned in the field before the horse, and a single ringed pellet appears below. No legend or inscription is present. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Mildenhall silver units take their name from the Suffolk hoard site, one of several East Anglian deposits that collectively mapped the Iceni's geographic reach before the Roman conquest. Iceni coinage was never centrally administered in the Roman sense — production likely shifted between aristocratic or tribal centers depending on political alliances, which explains the considerable variation in fabric and flan preparation across otherwise identical types.
No mint infrastructure in the conventional sense. These were struck by smiths operating within a prestige economy, not a monetary one.