Record ID: BM-C2D096
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
A worn copper-alloy as or dupondius, probably of Claudius I (AD 41-54), dating to the period AD 41-54 (Reece period 2). Unclear reverse type. Uncertain mint. 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: Thursday 8th February 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 4th December 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Huntingdon Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BM-9C7428
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
A worn copper-alloy Roman dupondius of Claudius I (AD 41-54), dating to the period AD 41-54 (Reece period 2). [CERES AVGVSTA] reverse type depicting Ceres seated left on throne holding corn ears and torch, S C in exergue. cf. RIC I (2nd ed.), p. 127, no. 94. 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) …
Created on: Tuesday 6th February 2018
Last updated: Monday 1st February 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Huntingdon Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BM-EAA7D3
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
A worn copper-alloy pierced Roman coin, probably a 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; cf. an example in the British Museum collection (1934,0905.129); 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 coina…
Created on: Sunday 19th March 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 4th December 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Huntingdon Area', grid reference and parish protected.