Rights Holder: Birmingham Museums Trust
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Unique ID: WAW-9DA72A
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation
Roman coin: Probably a copper-alloy as or dupondius dating to the first to third centuries AD. The reverse type is illegible. Probably mint of Rome. The coin is particularly corroded with only traces of a heavy patina.
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 1
Date to: Circa AD 250
Quantity: 1
Weight: 3.8 g
Diameter: 23.31 mm
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 1st January 2013 - Tuesday 31st December 2013
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Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Incomplete
Denomination: Dupondius or as
Denomination qualifier: Probably
Ruler/issuer: Uncertain - 1st-mid 3rd century
Mint or issue place: Rome
Obverse description: Particularly high-relief bust but the details are not clear.
Obverse inscription: Illegible due to corrosion.
Reverse description: Standing figure otherwise the details are not clear.
Reverse inscription: Illegible due to corrosion.
Die axis measurement: 6 o'clock
Degree of wear: Extremely worn: poor
Status: Regular
No coin references available.
4 Figure: SP3869
Four figure Latitude: 52.31779538
Four figure longitude: -1.44395235
1:25K map: SP3869
1:10K map: SP36NE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
No references cited so far.