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COIN
Unique ID: NMS-15AAF
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
Roman copper-alloy nummus of Fausta, wife of Constantine I, dating to AD 326 (Reece Period 16), SPES REI PVBLICAE, Empress standing facing, holding two children. Mint of Trier. RIC VII, p. 209, no. 484.
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 326
Date to: Circa AD 326
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 1st April 1991
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Coin data (numismatics)
Denomination: Uncertain
Ruler/issuer: Fausta
Primary ruler qualifier: Certain
Reece period: Period 16 [317-330]
Mint or issue place: Trier
Mint qualifier: Certain
Obverse description: Bare-headed right, with mantle and wavy hair
Obverse inscription: Not Given, but FLAV MAX - FAVSTA AVG
Reverse description: Empress standing facing, holding two children
Reverse inscription: SPES REI PVBLICAE
Fourth Century reverse type: SPES REI PVBLICAE (Fausta)
Reverse mint mark: - // PTR crescent and dot
Status: Regular
Status qualifier: Certain
Coin references
- RIC : VII p. 209, no. 484
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Norfolk (County)
District: King's Lynn and West Norfolk (District)
Parish or ward: Shernborne (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TF7232
Four figure Latitude: 52.858009
Four figure longitude: 0.553279
1:25K map: TF7232
1:10K map: TF73SW
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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