Record ID: SOMDOR-CAD715
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy coin. Difficult to date with real certainty as it is heavily corroded, but what can be seen of the size and shape of the bust, together with the size of the flan is more like contemporary copies of Claudian asses than, for example, later asses or sestercii and 4th century folles. 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 m…
Created on: Monday 5th September 2005
Last updated: Wednesday 29th January 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chedzoy', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-D5E315
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A contemporary copy of an as of Claudius. Boon (1988, 118-24) suggests that such coins are "epidemic imitations" dating to the early years of the Roman occupation of Britain. They were needed to fill the gap in supply of coinage to Britannia and continued to be produced until part way through the reign of Nero, when new coinage was minted. 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 Claudia…
Created on: Tuesday 6th September 2005
Last updated: Wednesday 29th January 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Curry Rivel parish', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-03A5C1
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Contemporary copy of an as of Claudius (41-54). 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 mints which operated at Lyons (Gaul) and in Spain. This example is a native copy.
Created on: Wednesday 14th December 2005
Last updated: Wednesday 29th January 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Misterton', grid reference and parish protected.