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Stater 'Icenian B'
| Issuer | Iceni tribe |
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| Year | 15 BC - 20 AD |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | A highly stylised Celticized horse advancing to the right, its face elaborately decorated in typical Late Iron Age British fashion. A solar ring device appears above the horse, enclosing a trefoil of pellets, with additional pellet trefoils distributed in the field beside it. A star motif occupies the field below the horse, contributing to the densely ornamented composition characteristic of Icenian coinage of this period. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Iceni occupied what is now Norfolk and northern Suffolk, and their gold coinage circulated in the decades before and after the Roman conquest of southern Britain in 43 AD. The tribe remained nominally autonomous under client-king arrangements until the death of Prasutagus around 60 AD, after which Roman administrators seized Icenian territory, an act that directly triggered Boudica's revolt. Coins of this type were already a generation or more old by then, struck during the period when the tribe still operated as an independent political entity.