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Unique ID: NCL-B101F7
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Published
Notes:
There are traces of a core (iron or copper) around the edges of the coin. The reverse legend should start under the horses, not in the exergue. Therefore, this coin is struck from false dies rather than being cast from an original coin.
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Date from: Post 108 BC
Quantity: 1
Thickness: 2.02 mm
Weight: 2.4 g
Diameter: 16.69 mm
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 1st September 2007
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Primary material: Silver
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Complete
Denomination: Denarius serratus (Roman Republic)
Ruler/issuer: Republic
Reece period: Period 1 [Pre AD 41]
Mint or issue place: Rome
Obverse description: Helmeted bust right of Roma, the helmet with wings.
Obverse inscription: ROMA (retrograde)
Reverse description: Victory riding biga (two horse chariot) right
Reverse inscription: In exergue: (L.F)LAM(N.)
Degree of wear: Hardly worn: extremely fine
Republican moneyer: Flaminius Chilo, L.
RRC Identifier: RRC 302/1
Status: Contemporary copy (Plated copy)
No coin references available.
4 Figure: TF2962
Four figure Latitude: 53.139544
Four figure longitude: -0.07298
1:25K map: TF2962
1:10K map: TF26SE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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