Record ID: LVPL-12F118
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy contemporary copy of a dupondius of Antonia (struck under Claudius, AD 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 contemporary copy of those minted at the Lyon II, à la Petite Tête. Obv. [ANTONIA AVGVSTA]; Bust of Antonia right. Rev. [TI CLAVD…
Created on: Tuesday 10th August 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 20th November 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Shrewsbury', grid reference and parish protected.