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COIN
Unique ID: LIN-B99D26
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A copper-alloy sestertius, possibly of Hadrian (117-38).
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 could not be classified to a mint.
Kenyon has also suggested the size is more likely to indicate a dupondius and the obverse portrait suggests unclassified Antonia dupondius.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: AD 117
Date to: AD 138
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Diameter: 30 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 1st August 2010
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Complete
Coin data (numismatics)
Denomination: Dupondius
Denomination qualifier: Certain
Reece period: Period 2 [41-54]
Obverse description: Unclear bust right
Obverse inscription: Illegible
Reverse description: Figure advancing left (Spes?)
Reverse inscription: Illegible
Degree of wear: Extremely worn: poor
Status: Contemporary copy
Status qualifier: Certain
Coin references
No coin references available.
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Lincolnshire (County)
District: East Lindsey (District)
Parish or ward: Rigsby with Ailby (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TF4375
Four figure Latitude: 53.252749
Four figure longitude: 0.141975
1:25K map: TF4375
1:10K map: TF47NW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
References cited
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