Record ID: HAMP-C9DE11
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy contemporary copy of a Roman as of Claudius dating to the period AD 43-54 (Reece Period 2). Minerva reverse type depicting Minerva right, helmeted and draped, hurling javelin and holding round shield. Copying mint of Rome. 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…
Created on: Monday 1st December 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 15th January 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Droxford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-C7D9B7
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A contemporary copy of a copper-alloy Roman as of Claudius I dating to the period AD 41 to 54 (Reece period 2). Minerva advancing right reverse type, uncertain mint. 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 native copy.
Created on: Monday 1st December 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 15th January 2020
Spatial data recorded.