Record ID: SOMDOR-16E8A5
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy Roman dupondius of Antonia (AD 41-54), mother of Claudius, dating to the period c.AD 41-54 (Reece period 2). TI CLAVDIVS CAESAR A[VG P M T]R P IMP reverse type depicting Claudius, veiled and togate, standing left, right hand holding simpulum. cf. RIC I (2nd ed.), no. 92. 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 whi…
Created on: Wednesday 21st September 2005
Last updated: Tuesday 9th March 2021
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