Record ID: HAMP-673C56
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An extremely worn and corroded, contemporary copy of a mid 1st-century copper-alloy Roman as of Claudius, Minerva reverse, 'Rome' mint (c. 41 - c. 50 AD; Reece issue period 2; cf. R.I.C. 100/116; Boon 27ff.). This coin has received some small circumferential losses and bending. 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 a…
Created on: Monday 13th June 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 15th January 2020
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