Record ID: SWYOR-F466A4
Object type: COIN
Broad period: GREEK AND ROMAN PROVINCIAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A base silver (billon) Roman coin; a Roman Provincial tetradrachm of Hadrian. It is 23mm in diameter and 4mm thick. It weighs 11.57gm. It was minted in Alexandria in AD 120 - 121. See the British Museum Coin Catalogue (BMC) Greek Alexandria number 644.
Created on: Thursday 16th July 2009
Last updated: Thursday 9th July 2020
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Record ID: IOW-52D5B3
Object type: COIN
Broad period: GREEK AND ROMAN PROVINCIAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
A base silver tetradrachm of Gallienus, 260-8; L - I? (= Year 13 = AD 265-6); Eagle standing right, wreath in beak; palm behind; Alexandria, AD 265-6. BMC Greek, Alexandria, no. 2236.
Created on: Friday 13th August 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 11th September 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-4C4EF8
Object type: COIN
Broad period: GREEK AND ROMAN PROVINCIAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Provincial coin struck in Egypt for the Roman emperor Commodus. Made from billon (base silver). This is a tetradrachm.
Created on: Monday 24th July 2006
Last updated: Tuesday 4th June 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Norwood', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-457976
Object type: COIN
Broad period: GREEK AND ROMAN PROVINCIAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Base silver Tetradrachm of Maximinus I (AD 235-8) struck in the third year of his reign, AD 237. Mint of Alexandria (Egypt).The reverse depicts a draped bust right, but not further information is provided and there is no image attached to the record. Numerous types of Maximinus I at Alexandria have busts on the reverse.
Created on: Tuesday 31st August 2004
Last updated: Friday 11th December 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Billingford area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-5A3B3C
Object type: COIN
Broad period: GREEK AND ROMAN PROVINCIAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete base silver (billon) / copper alloy two shekel coin of Carthage, in the region of Zeugitana, dating to about 264-241 BC (period of the First Punic War), Head of Tanit / Horse standing right. SNG Copenhagen, pl 7, cf. 190; J. Alexandropopoulos, Les Monnaies de l'Afrique antique, p. 372, cf. no. 44. These coins are normally listed as base silver (billon) and the metal analysis below supports this, with 17.07% silver. Diameter: 24.1 mm Thickness: 3.3 mm Weight: 9.5 g Coin was tested using a Bruker Mistral MI XRF machine and was found to contain 17.07% Ag (Silver); 82.1…
Created on: Monday 9th June 2014
Last updated: Monday 19th February 2018
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Record ID: KENT-D28379
Object type: COIN
Broad period: GREEK AND ROMAN PROVINCIAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
A complete Iron Age copper-alloy / base silver Siculo-Punic coin, minted in Carthage or Sicily between c. 320 and 280 BC. Obverse: Head of Tanit left wearing wreath and corn ears. Reverse: Horse standing right in front of date palm. The coin is 15.4mm in diameter, 2.6mm thick and weighs 1.96 grams. This coin does have a silvery appearance and billon coins for this issue have been noted (three are in the Bardo Museum in Tunisia - see Alexandropoulos 2007, p. 367 (cited below). Note also that the dating of this issue is not known for certain and some scholars have dated the ser…
Created on: Friday 23rd June 2017
Last updated: Monday 19th February 2018
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