Record ID: WILT-98DD59
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A contemporary copy copper-alloy Roman As of the Emperor Claudius I dating to the period AD 41 - 54 (Reece Period 2). Minerva walking right with spear and shield, with S to her left and C to her right. 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 could not be classified to a partic…
Created on: Monday 13th November 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 29th January 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WILT-D0FEB4
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman dupondius of Claudius (AD 41-54), reverse: CERES AVGVSTA around Ceres standing left on ornate throne, holding two corn-ears. Measures 25mm, weighs 9.32g, die axis 6, worn. 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 from the Iberian Peninsula I, Workshop B, mint. O…
Created on: Tuesday 28th August 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 16th October 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Poole', grid reference and parish protected.