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COIN
Unique ID: SF-1BB056
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A worn copper-alloy Roman dupondius, contemporary copy of a coin of Claudius, c.41-54 AD. Reverse: CER[ES AVGVSTA], Ceres seated left holding torch and ears of corn.
Robert Kenyon, following on from the work by the French scholars P-A. Besombes and M. Bompaire (in Trésors Monétaires XXI, 2005), is working through the British examples of Claudian coinage recorded through the PAS assigning many so-called Claudian contemporary copies to Roman auxiliary mints which operated at Lyons (Gaul) and in Spain. This example is a contemporary copy of those that were minted at the Lyon I, à la Grosse Tête, mint.
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 41
Date to: Circa AD 54
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Weight: 8.47 g
Diameter: 27.17 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 1st July 2009
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Coin data (numismatics)
Denomination: Dupondius
Denomination qualifier: Certain
Ruler/issuer: Claudius
Primary ruler qualifier: Certain
Reece period: Period 2 [41-54]
Mint or issue place: Lugdunum Auxillary Mint I
Mint qualifier: Probably
Obverse description: Bare head left
Obverse inscription: []CAESAR AVG[]
Reverse description: Ceres seated left holding torch and ears of corn
Reverse inscription: CER[ES AVGVSTA]
Die axis measurement: 6 o'clock
Status: Contemporary copy
Status qualifier: Certain
Coin references
No coin references available.
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Suffolk (County)
District: Mid Suffolk (District)
To be known as: Claydon
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
References cited
No references cited so far.
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