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Silver Unit Odin Smiler
| Issuer | Iceni tribe (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 15 BC - 5 AD |
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| Value | Silver Unit |
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| Reverse description | A horse is depicted in profile facing right, rendered in the highly stylised, disjointed manner characteristic of Late Iron Age Celtic coinage. The horse's head is open and schematically rendered. Above the horse, an outline crescent and two rings are arranged to form a schematic face, a design element associated with the 'Odin' type classification. A pellet within a ring appears below the horse, serving as an additional decorative device in the field. No inscription or legend is present. |
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| Mintage | ND (15 BC - 5 AD) |
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The Iceni occupied what is now Norfolk and parts of Suffolk, and their silver coinage developed during a period of intensifying contact with the Roman world — trade, diplomacy, and the gradual absorption of continental coin conventions all feeding into distinctly local designs. The "Smiler" types are distinguished by a particular treatment of the face motif that sets them apart within Iceni issues, though the tribal attribution itself rests heavily on find-spot distribution rather than any inscription.
No Iceni coin names a ruler until the generation immediately preceding Boudica's revolt of 60–61 AD. ABC 1534 predates that epigraphic phase entirely.