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Silver Unit Norfolk Diadem / Bury Two Horses
| Issuer | Iceni tribe (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 50 BC - 15 BC |
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| Weight | 1.19 g |
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| Obverse description | Stylised Celtic female head facing right, rendered in the abstract La Tène artistic tradition characteristic of Icenian coinage. The effigy displays a sharply pointed nose and pronounced facial features, with a diadem depicted above the forehead. The hair is rendered as a series of flowing, flame-like curvilinear strands extending above and behind the head. The flan is irregular, and the design occupies the full field without inscription or border. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Iceni occupied territory across modern Norfolk and Suffolk, and their coinage production intensified markedly in the decades following Caesar's two British expeditions of 55–54 BC — not as a direct response to Rome, but as part of a broader monetization occurring across southeastern Britain's tribal networks. The Norfolk Diadem series sits within the earlier phase of Iceni silver output, before the tribe's coinage became more standardized under client-king arrangements with Rome.
The "cf." qualifiers across all four references signal genuine typological uncertainty — this piece shares characteristics with the established series without cleanly matching any single recorded die.