Silver Unit Dead Head Decorative

The "Dead Head" coinage is among the most enigmatic of all late Iceni issues, produced in the decades immediately before or during the Roman conquest of Britain. The Iceni famously avoided direct submission to Rome until the client-kingdom arrangement collapsed under Claudius, and these small silver units were likely struck during that uneasy transitional period when tribal authority was fragmenting and coinage production was decentralizing across East Anglia. The Saham Toney area of Norfolk has yielded concentrations of this type, suggesting a highly localized production and circulation pattern rather than a tribal-wide issue.