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Unique ID: ESS-1EAEE1
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation
A Roman copper alloy copy of an as of Claudius dating to AD43 - AD54 (Reece Period 2). Reverse depicts Minerva advancing right. Uncertain Mint.
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 minted at the Lyon II, à la Petite Tête.
Notes:
Record produced from information and image supplied by finder; not seen by FLO.
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 54
Quantity: 1
Weight: 6.64 g
Diameter: 28 mm
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Other reference: Finder's Reference 052-C0007
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Complete
Denomination: As
Denomination qualifier: Certain
Ruler/issuer: Claudius
Reece period: Period 2 [41-54]
Mint or issue place: Lugdunum Auxillary Mint II
Mint qualifier: Probably
Obverse description: Head left
Obverse inscription: [...] AVG
Reverse description: Minerva advancing right
Reverse inscription: [...] SC
Die axis measurement: 10 o'clock
Status: Contemporary copy
No coin references available.
4 Figure: TL6714
Four figure Latitude: 51.79971
Four figure longitude: 0.420511
1:25K map: TL6714
1:10K map: TL61SE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1000 metre square.
No references cited so far.