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Silver Unit Norfolk Boar Triadic type
| Issuer | Iceni tribe |
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| Year | 65 BC - 1 BC |
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| Reference(s) | Sp#431, V#655, ABC#1576, GCV#179 |
| Obverse description | A stylised boar facing right, rendered in the characteristic Celtic abstract idiom of the Iceni tradition. The animal is depicted with a prominent arched back and exaggerated bristles along the spine, conveying power through simplified curvilinear forms. A crescent motif appears in the lower left field, accompanied by a pellet below the boar's body. Additional pellets are scattered in the field around the figure. The whole design is set within a beaded or rope-pattern border typical of late Iron Age British coinage. |
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| Reverse description | A stylised horse prancing to the right, depicted in the schematic Celtic artistic style characteristic of Iceni silver coinage. The horse's body is rendered with bold, simplified lines, and a decorative element resembling a flower or rosette appears above the animal. Pellets are distributed across the field in triadic groupings, consistent with the designation of this issue as the Triadic type. A curved linear motif is visible beneath the horse, and the overall composition fills the flan in a lively, abstracted manner within an irregular border. |
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The Iceni occupied what is now Norfolk and Suffolk, and their coinage — including this triadic type — was produced and circulating in the decades leading up to Boudica's revolt of 60/61 AD. The triadic classification refers to the arrangement of pellets in groups of three, a regional convention that helps distinguish Icenian issues from the broader British Iron Age coinage tradition. These small silver units were struck by hammer between unworked dies with no collar, which accounts for the irregular flans characteristic of the type.