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COIN
Unique ID: LEIC-1B2EF9
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Roman copper alloy As of Claudius (41-54AD), very worn. Reverse type possibly Minerva advancing? BMCRE149/206?
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 I, à la Grosse Tête, 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 54
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Weight: 5.15 g
Diameter: 20 mm
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Complete
Coin data (numismatics)
Denomination: As
Denomination qualifier: Certain
Ruler/issuer: Claudius
Primary ruler qualifier: Certain
Reece period: Period 2 [41-54]
Mint or issue place: Lugdunum Auxillary Mint I
Obverse description: Left facing bareheaded bust
Obverse inscription: [TICLAVDIVSCAE]SARAVG[PMTRPIMPPP]
Reverse description: figure with shoulders raised, poss. Minerva brandishing spear?
Status: Contemporary copy
Status qualifier: Certain
Coin references
No coin references available.
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Cambridgeshire (County)
District: South Cambridgeshire (District)
To be known as: south cambridgeshire
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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