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Silver Unit Toney Curly Top Right Type

Issuer Iceni tribe (Celtic Britain)
Year 15 BC - 20 AD
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Diameter 13 mm
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Reverse description A highly stylised horse advancing to the right, rendered in the distinctive disjointed Celtic manner with a pellet-formed mane and a large, open schematic head. A lozenge-shaped ornament occupies the upper field, with a single pellet placed at each of its four corners. Below the horse, a pellet enclosed within a ring serves as a ground ornament. The overall composition reflects the abstract decorative vocabulary characteristic of Iceni tribal silver coinage of the late Iron Age.
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Mintage ND (15 BC - 20 AD)
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The Iceni occupied what is now Norfolk and Suffolk, and maintained a degree of autonomy under Roman client-king arrangements until Prasutagus died around 60 AD — after which Roman administrators seized tribal lands and triggered Boudicca's revolt. These small silver units predate that catastrophe, circulating during a period when Iceni coinage was still actively produced and regionally distributed. The "Toney" designation derives from the parish of Market Toney in Norfolk, where a significant concentration of this type has been recovered.

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