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COIN
Unique ID: SUSS-F57806
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Date from: 46 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Thickness: 1.4 mm
Weight: 3.47 g
Diameter: 18.8 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Friday 1st August 2008
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Silver
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Complete
Coin data (numismatics)
Denomination: Denarius serratus (Roman Republic)
Denomination qualifier: Certain
Ruler/issuer: Republic
Primary ruler qualifier: Certain
Reece period: Period 1 [Pre AD 41]
Mint or issue place: Rome
Mint qualifier: Certain
Obverse description: Conjoined heads of the Discori facing right wearing pilei helmets with two stars above
Obverse inscription: RVFVS III VIR
Reverse description: Venus standing facing left holding scales and transverse sceptre
Reverse inscription: MN CORDI[VS]
Die axis measurement: 9 o'clock
Degree of wear: Hardly worn: extremely fine
Republican moneyer: Cordius Rufus, Mn.
RRC Identifier: RRC 463/1b
Status: Regular
Status qualifier: Probably
Coin references
- RRC : p. 473, No 463/1.
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: East Sussex (County)
District: Wealden (District)
Parish or ward: Alciston (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TQ5004
Four figure Latitude: 50.816129
Four figure longitude: 0.127941
1:25K map: TQ5004
1:10K map: TQ50SW
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
References cited
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