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Silver Unit Odin Smiler
| Issuer | Iceni tribe (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 15 BC - 5 AD |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (15 BC - 5 AD) |
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The Iceni occupied what is now Norfolk and parts of Suffolk, and their silver coinage developed during a period of intensifying contact with the Roman world — trade, diplomacy, and the gradual absorption of continental coin conventions all feeding into distinctly local designs. The "Smiler" types are distinguished by a particular treatment of the face motif that sets them apart within Iceni issues, though the tribal attribution itself rests heavily on find-spot distribution rather than any inscription.
No Iceni coin names a ruler until the generation immediately preceding Boudica's revolt of 60–61 AD. ABC 1534 predates that epigraphic phase entirely.