Record ID: SUSS-5A0D1A
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy Roman dupondius or as, probably issued by a member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, dating from 31 BC-AD 68. It is likely from remaining detail of the bust that this coin was issued by Claudius (AD 41-54). Reverse type illegible, depicting a standing figure. 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 L…
Created on: Monday 8th December 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 4th December 2019
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