Ancient, Celtic, British and World Coins, Tokens and Historical Medals

CELTIC COINS Iceni, Unit, Face/horse type, male head right, reverse horse to right, lozenge-shaped ornament below, triangular symbol within cabled arc above, 1.3 gms (CCB 792.1; S 434). Very fine (£60-80)

This type has been assigned by Van Arsdell to period the great Iceni uprising against the Romans and attributed the celebrated queen Boudicca. However many students of the Celtic series have questioned this attribution. And as Chris Rudd points out (FPL 41) “Is it likely that such a forceful personality would forget to add her name to her coins or that thirty years of inscribed coinage would end in an anonymous issue?” The head on the obverse probably represents a male Celtic god.