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COIN
Unique ID: CORN-EA7C85
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Incomplete brass sestertius, but too worn and corroded to make out any details.
Subsequent actions
Current location of find: returned to finder
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 50
Date to: AD 250
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Thickness: 4 mm
Weight: 12.8 g
Diameter: 28 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 4th June 2005
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Incomplete
Coin data (numismatics)
Denomination: Sestertius
Denomination qualifier: Probably
Obverse description: too worn and corroded to make out
Obverse inscription: illegible
Reverse description: too worn and corroded to make out
Reverse inscription: illegible
Coin references
No coin references available.
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
District: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Ludgvan (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SW5032
Four figure Latitude: 50.13527
Four figure longitude: -5.499807
1:25K map: SW5032
1:10K map: SW52NW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
References cited
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