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Silver Unit Norfolk Boar Star
| Issuer | Iceni tribe (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 15 BC - 20 AD |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse description | A stylised boar depicted in profile occupies the central field, rendered in the characteristic abstracted Celtic artistic tradition. The animal's body is defined by bold linear forms, with a prominent ridged mane along the back and a curved snout. A central pellet appears on the boar's flank on certain die varieties (VA 657-03), while others omit this feature (VA 657-01). The surrounding field is populated with a large central annulet and additional pellets and crescentic forms arranged around the periphery. The flan is irregular, as is typical of hand-struck Celtic coinage of this period. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Iceni occupied what is now Norfolk and Suffolk, and by the late first century BC were operating as a client kingdom under Roman accommodation rather than outright conquest. Their silver coinage was almost certainly used for elite transactions, tribute payments, and political gift-giving rather than everyday commerce — the denomination is too small and the silver too debased by this period for routine market use. Coin hoards associated with the Iceni, including deposits from Saham Toney and Ken Hill, show these units concentrated in the tribal heartland with little dispersal south.
Boudicca's revolt of 60/61 AD effectively ended Iceni coinage production entirely.