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Unique ID: SF-1AC7E1
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation
A contemporary copy of a Dupondius of Claudius I c.AD 43-66. Similar to coins recovered from Colchester (Crummy, 1987), Group E, plate 5, nos 8-10.
Obverse shows bareheaded bust left. Reverse shows Seres seated left holding a 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 native copy.
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 43
Date to: Circa AD 66
Quantity: 1
Weight: 5.82 g
Diameter: 22.95 mm
Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 1st February 2012
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Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Complete
Denomination: Dupondius
Denomination qualifier: Certain
Ruler/issuer: Claudius
Reece period: Period 2 [41-54]
Mint or issue place: Claudian Native Copy
Obverse description: Emperor, bareheaded bust left
Obverse inscription: Illegible
Reverse description: Seres seated left holding a torch and ears of corn
Reverse inscription: Illegible
Die axis measurement: 1 o'clock
Degree of wear: Extremely worn: poor
Status: Contemporary copy
No coin references available.
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
No references cited so far.