Record ID: PUBLIC-C694D8
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy Roman sestertius of Claudius (AD 41-54), dating to c.AD 41-54 (Reece Period 2). Reverse: SPES AVGVSTA, Spes advancing left, holding flower and raising skirt. SC in exergue. As RIC I (2nd ed.), p. 128, no. 99 . 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 a cont…
Created on: Thursday 7th February 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 9th October 2019
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