Rights Holder: Royal Institution of Cornwall
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Unique ID: CORN-71DE77
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation
Current location of find: returned to finder
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 69
Date to: AD 79
Quantity: 1
Thickness: 3 mm
Weight: 4.72 g
Diameter: 24 mm
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 1st January 2007 - Wednesday 31st January 2007
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Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Incomplete
Denomination: As
Denomination qualifier: Probably
Ruler/issuer: Nero
Primary ruler qualifier: Probably
Mint or issue place: Lugdunum
Mint qualifier: Probably
Obverse description: bare head facing right but too worn to see if globe at point of bust
Obverse inscription: illegible
Reverse description: front wall of a rectangular altar enclosure, but too worn to see if it has horns!
Reverse inscription: S and C left and right in field; [ARA PACIS] in exergue
Die axis measurement: 7 o'clock
Degree of wear: Extremely worn: poor
Status: Regular
Status qualifier: Certain
No coin references available.
4 Figure: SW9278
Four figure Latitude: 50.564638
Four figure longitude: -4.938369
1:25K map: SW9278
1:10K map: SW98SW
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
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Mattingly, H. and Carson, R.A.G. | 1976 | Coins of the Roman Empire in the British Museum | London | British Museum Press | 271, Plate 47, Fig.2, | No.361 | |
Mattingly, H. and Sydenham, E.A. | 1936 | Roman Imperial Coinage: Augustus to Vitellius | London | Spink and Son Ltd | 178, Plate21, | No.458 |