Rights Holder: Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum
CC License:
Our images can be used under a CC BY attribution licence (unless stated otherwise).
Unique ID: WILT-9A229D
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published
A copper-alloy Roman as of Antoninus Pius (AD 138-161), dating to the period AD 154-155 (Reece period 7). BRITANNIA COS IIII SC reverse type depicting Britannia seated left on a rock. Mint of Rome. Cf. RIC III, p. 142, no. 934. This is a Coin of British Association as listed by D. Walker in his study of the Sacred Spring at Bath, cf. Walker, 1988: pp. 294, 297-8, nos. 73-122, 136-288, pls. XXXV-VI.
Notes:
Coin of British Association: Antoninus Britannia
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 154
Date to: Circa AD 155
Quantity: 1
Weight: 9.28 g
Diameter: 24.51 mm
This information is restricted for your access level.
Other reference: SSWM 5109
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Complete
Denomination: As
Denomination qualifier: Certain
Ruler/issuer: Antoninus Pius
Reece period: Period 7 [138-161]
Mint or issue place: Rome
Obverse description: Laureate bust right.
Obverse inscription: Illegible.
Reverse description: Britannia seated left on a rock.
Reverse inscription: [BRITANNIA COS IIII] / SC
Die axis measurement: 6 o'clock
Status: Regular
No coin references available.
4 Figure: SU1118
Four figure Latitude: 50.96132141
Four figure longitude: -1.84474451
1:25K map: SU1118
1:10K map: SU11NW
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
No references cited so far.