Record ID: SUR-A654FC
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
Contemporary copy (probably) of a copper-alloy dupondius struck for Antonia by Claudius (AD 41-54) (Reece Period 2), TI CAESAR AVG P M TR P IMP (P P) S C, Claudius standing left. Prototype Mint mark. RIC I, pp. 127 & 129, cf. nos. 92 & 129. Boon pl III, cf. nos. 42-3. 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…
Created on: Saturday 15th July 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 6th November 2019
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