Record ID: SUR-98C4F2
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An as of Claudius dating to the period AD 41-42 (Reece Period 2). CERES AVGVSTA SC reverse type depicting Ceres enthroned left holding corn ears and a torch. Mint of Rome. RIC 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) and in Spain. This example is a contemporary copy of those minted at the Lyon II,…
Created on: Saturday 13th April 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 6th November 2019
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