Iceni hoard

[hovite]

A hoard of 824 gold saters, minted by the Iceni, has been discovered.

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/suffolk/7835228.stm

After the death of King Prasutagos, the kingdom was annexed by Rome, which caused the famous revolt by his widow, Queen Boudicca, but little is known of the history of the kingdom prior to that point. The hoard of coins seems to date from about half a century earlier, so their inscriptions may provide new information about the kings who reigned in the area up to that time.

[Aidan Work]

Paul,
I knew about that when I was reading up on news.bbc.co.uk .I have posted some links to that news item up on various numismatic forums,such as www.historiccoinage.com/forum/index.php .

Aidan.

[vittoria]

Spectacular. Coinage can offer a very interesting glimpse into a culture when other, "softer" evidence is sketchy or otherwise unavailable. I'd like to know much more about the pre-Roman tribes and chiefdoms (the term "king" is probably an anachronistic misnomer), and hordes of this kind excite me.