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COIN
Unique ID: BM-D25391
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
An Iron Age uninscribed silver unit of the Eastern Anglian region / Iceni, dating to c.20 BC-AD 40, 'Norfolk Boar Phallic' type. Obverse: Stylised boar right with pellet eye, single front leg, spear in front piercing ears, pellets above, single pellet below. Reverse: Horse prancing right, pellet triads to either side of a wheel motif above, phallic motif between pellet triads below. As ABC p. 85, no. 1582; BMC nos. 3473-3511.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: IRON AGE
Period from: IRON AGE
Period to: IRON AGE
Date from: Circa 20 BC
Date to: Circa AD 40
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Weight: 0.69 g
Diameter: 12 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 1st January 1985
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Silver
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Complete
Coin data (numismatics)
Denomination: Unit (silver)
Ruler/issuer: Uninscribed
Tribe: Iceni
Geographic provenance: British East Anglia
British Museum Catalogue type: 3473x
Ancient British Coins (ABC): 1582
Obverse description: Stylised boar right with pellet eye, single front leg, spear in front piercing ears, pellets above, single pellet below.
Reverse description: Horse prancing right, pellet triads to either side of a wheel motif above, phallic motif between pellet triads below
Die axis measurement: 8 o'clock
Status: Regular
Status qualifier: Certain
Coin references
No coin references available.
Spatial metadata
County or Unitary authority: Cambridgeshire (County)
District: Fenland (District)
To be known as: Stonea Grange
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
References cited
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