Record ID: SOMDOR4
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Roman copper-alloy nummus of Constantine I dating to the period AD 308 to 309 (Reece period 15). PRINCIPI-IV-VENTVTIS Prince standing facing, head left in military dress, holding standard in each hand. Minted at Lyon. RIC VI, p. 264, no. 299. The coin has a patch of silver metal visible at 4 o'clock on the obverse. Nummi of this period were agentiferous copper alloy, ie they contained a small content of silver (decreasing from 4% in AD 307 to 1.5% in AD 310). The patch is presuambly a patch of higher silver content metal due to incomplete mixing of the molten metal prior to product…
Created on: Friday 24th September 1999
Last updated: Wednesday 16th March 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stogumber CP', grid reference and parish protected.