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COIN
Unique ID: SUSS-582994
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
Copper alloy contemporary copy of a radiate of Carausius (286-293 AD) (Reece Period 14), PAX AVG, Pax standing left with branch and vertical sceptre. Probably copying an early unmarked coin. This coin has been considered for Sam Moorhead's corpus for RIC.
Notes:
Description complied from photograph.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 286
Date to: Circa AD 293
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Weight: 2.82 g
Diameter: 17.5 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 23rd August 2008 - Monday 25th August 2008
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: Firle Rally 5: G122
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Complete
Coin data (numismatics)
Denomination: Radiate (antoninianus)
Denomination qualifier: Probably
Ruler/issuer: Carausius
Reece period: Period 14 [275-296]
Obverse description: Radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right
Obverse inscription: CAR [---]
Reverse description: Pax standing left with branch and vertical sceptre
Reverse inscription: [PAX AVG]
Status: Contemporary copy
Coin references
No coin references available.
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: East Sussex (County)
District: Wealden (District)
To be known as: Near Alciston
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
References cited
No references cited so far.
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