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Iceni, Uninscribed issues, Unit, Boar/Horse type, boar right, pellets above and below, rev. horse right, four-spoked wheel above, hook-shaped ornament below, pellets around, 0.91g/4h (BMC 3473ff; VA 659-3; S 431). Of good silver, good very fine, very rare in this condition £200-250

Provenance: From an old Dorset Collection; V. McCarthy Collection; C. Rudd Collection, C. Rudd FPL 2, 1992 (8); C. King Collection; C. Rudd FPL 75, May 2004 (31). CCI 92.0583.

The hook-shaped ornament below the horse is sometimes interpreted as a phallic symbol