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Gold Stater Snettisham Rings Type
| Issuer | Iceni tribe (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 15 BC - 5 AD |
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| Currency | Stater |
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| Obverse description | Essentially plain and uninscribed, the convex field retains highly vestigial traces of a crossed-wreath design derived ultimately from the Macedonian stater prototype. Three faint curved lines traverse the field, representing the highly abstracted and degenerate remnants of the laurel wreath motif common to earlier British Celtic gold coinage. The surface is devoid of any legend, inscription, or border, consistent with the anepigraphic tradition of Icenian coinage of this period. |
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| Reverse description | A highly stylised horse advancing to the right, rendered in the characteristic abstract Celtic idiom. The head is open and schematically depicted, with a beaded mane that loops back above the head terminating in a pellet-in-ring motif. The animal displays a double tail and doubled upper foreleg lines, typical decorative conventions of this type. A cornucopia motif — interpreted by some authorities as a vestigial wing — appears above the horse's back, while additional pellet-in-ring ornaments are disposed in the field to the front and below the horse. The composition is anepigraphic throughout, the field otherwise plain. |
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| Mintage | ND (15 BC - 5 AD) - VA 615-01: Cornucopia clockwise. Two-line tail, four pellets - ND (15 BC - 5 AD) - VA 615-03: Cornucopia anti-clockwise. One-line tail, three pellets - |
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