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COIN
Unique ID: BM-22775A
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
An Iron Age inscribed plated silver unit of the Eastern Anglian region / Iceni, dating to c.AD 10-43, 'Ecen Corn Ear' type. Obverse: Double opposed crescents on vertical wreath. Reverse: Horse right with large oval head and pellet eye, S below head, corn-ear mane, pellet sun above, three pellets and EC[EN] below. As ABC p. 88, no. 1657; BMC 4033-4215.
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 AD 10
Date to: Circa AD 43
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Weight: 0.83 g
Diameter: 13 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: ECEN
Tribe: Iceni
Geographic provenance: British East Anglia
British Museum Catalogue type: 4033x
Ancient British Coins (ABC): 1657
Obverse description: Double opposed crescents on vertical wreath
Reverse description: Horse right with large oval head and pellet eye, S below head, corn-ear mane, pellet sun above, three pellets and EC[EN] below.
Reverse inscription: EC[EN]
Die axis measurement: 12 o'clock
Status: Contemporary copy (Plated copy)
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.
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