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Record ID: NMS-B14C73
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Irregular copper alloy as, 'Claudian copy', reverse standing figure, diameter 20.5mm, weight 1.52g, corroded but still very much underweight, c.AD50-70. 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 as a contemporary copy, nor from an auxiliary mint/mint of R…
Created on: Thursday 20th March 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 19th February 2020
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