Record ID: BH-59B3DD
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy Roman contemporary copy of an as of Claudius I (AD 41-54) (Reece period 2). Reverse type depicting Minerva advancing right holding javelin and shield, S C in the field. Copy of RIC I, pp. 128 & 130, nos. 100 & 116; G, Boon, Counterfeit Coins in Roman Britain, plate IV, cf. nos. 49-54. 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 …
Created on: Thursday 15th February 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 4th December 2019
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