Record ID: SOMDOR-52F8E3
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete and worn copper-alloy Roman coin, possibly the core of a plated siliqua or solidus dating to the period AD 364-378 (Reece period 19). Probably RESTITVTOR REIPVBLICAE reverse type depicting Emperor standing facing, head right, holding labarum and Victory on a globe? Uncertain mint. The reverse type is most likely a RESTITVTOR REIPVBLICAE (or derivative) type, but the closest examples with rosette diademed bust appear in gold and silver coinage of the Valentinian period, see for example RIC IX p. 42, no. 1b for the type. The British Museum collection holds a contemporar…
Created on: Sunday 30th October 2005
Last updated: Friday 14th October 2016
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