Record ID: WMID-4DDD51
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy contemporary copy of an as of Claudius I dating to the period AD 41 to 54 (Reece period 2). Minerva reverse type. 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 contemporary copy of those minted at the Lyon II, à la Petite Tête.
Created on: Tuesday 27th November 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 4th December 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Rauceby', grid reference and parish protected.