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COIN
Unique ID: WILT-FB3C99
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A copper alloy Roman dupondius of Claudius dating to the period AD 41-50 (Reece Period 2). CERES AVGVSTA reverse type depicting Ceres, veiled, seated left, holding grain ears and long torch, S-C across fields. Mint of Rome. RIC I, pg. 127, no. 94.
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 that were minted at the Iberian Peninsula I, Workshop D, auxiliary mint.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 41
Date to: Circa AD 50
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Weight: 5.81 g
Diameter: 25.91 mm
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: SSWM 4780
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Complete
Coin data (numismatics)
Denomination: Dupondius
Denomination qualifier: Certain
Ruler/issuer: Claudius
Primary ruler qualifier: Certain
Reece period: Period 2 [41-54]
Mint or issue place: Iberian Peninsula I Workshop D
Mint qualifier: Certain
Obverse description: bare head left
Obverse inscription: [TI CLAVDIVS] CAESAR AVG [PM TR P IMP]
Reverse description: Ceres, veiled, seated left, holding
grain ears and long torch, S-C across fields.
Reverse inscription: [CERES AVGVSTA]
Die axis measurement: 6 o'clock
Status: Contemporary copy
Status qualifier: Certain
Coin references
No coin references available.
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Hampshire (County)
District: New Forest (District)
To be known as: Breamore
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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