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Unique ID: PUBLIC-C9F1C8
Object type certainty: Certain
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Copper alloy As, possibly of Nerva (AD 96-8) (Reece Period 5), reverse is probably Fortuna or Aequitas standing left with a cornucopiae. Mint of Rome. BMC III, pls. 6-7, cf. nos. 8 & 5. This coin was originally identified as Trajan, but Nerva seems more likely.
Notes:
find date 26.11.93
Current location of find: with finder
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Exactly AD 96
Date to: Exactly AD 98
Quantity: 1
Weight: 7 g
Diameter: 26 mm
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Other reference: Beedon Pocock
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Complete
Denomination: As
Denomination qualifier: Certain
Ruler/issuer: Nerva
Primary ruler qualifier: Possibly
Reece period: Period 5 [96-117]
Obverse description: Laureate head right
Obverse inscription: [ ]
Reverse description: Female (possibly Fortuna or Aequitas) standing left holding cornucopiae and [?]
Reverse inscription: [ ]
Die axis measurement: 6 o'clock
Status: Regular
Status qualifier: Certain
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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