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Record ID: IARCH-10AE37
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Reading
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 28 no. 144: ""The following five sestertii were found in 1926, on the Berkshire side of Caversham Bridge, Reading, which was then undergoing reconstruction. The coins were bought by the [Reading] Museum in 1933. Not improbably they formed part of a hoard. W.A. Seaby, when cataloguing this purchase, recorded a doubt as to whether all had come from the same spot: but the writer [G.C. Boon] can see no reason for doubting the attribution in the absence of any positive indication of different proveniences." Sest. Tiberius 2 Nero 1 Hadrian 2 (1 with obv. defaced) (de…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Caversham Bridge', grid reference and parish protected.