2024-03-29T00:30:05+00:00https://finds.org.uk/database/search/results/format/jsonhttps://finds.org.uk/database/search/results/format/xmlhttps://finds.org.uk/database/search/results/format/rsshttps://finds.org.uk/database/search/results/format/atomhttps://finds.org.uk/database/search/results/format/kmlhttps://finds.org.uk/database/search/results/format/geojsonhttps://finds.org.uk/database/search/results/format/qrcodehttps://finds.org.uk/database/search/results11100Somerset10CountyStruck or hammered211Certain2996944Metal detectorSOM-052255.jpg105782013Generated from computer mapping softwareCorrodedArcadius13716nummus10423572838842013T73BRO
Found at the same time as a hoard of 138 Roman bronze coins placed under a stone (Treasure case 2013 T73a). These coins, found scattered from the rest of the field, appear to be a mixture of Roman copper-alloy denominations dating from across most of the four centuries of Roman rule over Britain.
Age
All are of Roman date and therefore over 300 years old.
Metal content
They are all essentially base metal in composition (copper alloy).
From the same find?
This group of coins has the appearance of an accumulation of losses from different periods over the course of the second to fourth centuries AD. It spans a wider period than is likely for a hoard deposited in, say, the late fourth century and contains a mixture of denominations. The coins were therefore probably not deposited together as a hoard but instead form a series of technically separate finds as a result of random deposition over a period of time. As such, these coins do not appear to constitute Treasure under the stipulations of the Treasure Act 1996 which require that coins must be from the same find.
1.5DistrictCertain412420arcadiusSOM1049511.1395Restricted Accessx41218263522070.62lugdunumSouth Somerset10627Nummus (AE 1 - AE 4)2013-12-17T14:47:17ZReturned to finder after being declared not TreasureSouth WestExactlyCertain
A Roman copper-alloy nummus of Arcadius (AD 383-408) dating to the period AD 388-395 (Reece Period 21). VICTORIA AVGGG reverse type depicting Victory advancing left with wreath. Mint of Lyon. LRBC p. 53, refs. 392/395
This coin has suffered some small circumferential losses.
Robert Webley111.1Arcadius1677177Somerton CPSOM-0526A4592331Bust [pearl-diademed, draped and cuirassed] facing right[VICTORIA A]VG[GG]11SCC receipt 22402COINRestricted Accessfinds-5923315994110.320068132Lugdunum81SOM-0522556Complete388images/rwebley2/VICTORIA AVGGG14503781PAS52B0522500195242013-12-17T13:31:17ZVictory walking left with wreath in right handCertainx412182LVCP (retrograde C)Regular2013-02-10T00:00:00ZCertain4ROMANCopper alloy41427x29284RO1Exactly21http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ROMANCertain[D N AR]CAD[IVS P F AVG]Civil Parish12022-07-14T07:11:32.852Z