Stater 'Icenian B'

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.