Record ID: WMID-0A8A35
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete struck / hammered copper alloy sesterius of Commodus (AD 175 to AD 192), dating to the period between AD 186 to AD 187 (Reece Period 9). Reverse: P M TR P XIII IMP VIII COS V P P S C, Salus seated left feeding snake at altar. Mint of Rome. RIC III, p. 425. no. 511. Diameter: 28.06 mm Thickness: 3.95 mm Weight: 16.7 g
Created on: Thursday 6th June 2013
Last updated: Thursday 6th June 2013
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Record ID: WMID-17D0D7
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete struck / hammered copper alloy sestertius of Claudius (AD 41-54), dating to c. AD 41-50 (Reece Period 2), SPES AVGVSTA, Spes advancing left. Mint of Rome. RIC I, p. 128, no. 99. There is a rectangular countermark in front of the head which originally read PROB. Although these coins are listed as being from the mint of Rome in RIC, Robert Kenyon has noted that the coins are of a different style to any of the known styles of coins from Rome. Furthermore, the PROB countermark is only common in Britain and Italy. He suggests that these coins were struck in Britain. R. F. kenyon…
Created on: Wednesday 19th June 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 9th October 2019
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Record ID: WMID-31F4E2
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete struck / hammered copper alloy sestertius of Antoninus Pius (AD 131 to AD 161), dating to the period between AD 140 and AD 144 (Reece Period 7). PAX AVG S C reverse type depicting Pax standing left, holding branch and cornucopiae. Mint of Rome. Cf. RIC III, p. 107. no 616. Diameter: 29.20 mm Thickness: 5.23 mm Weight: 20.2 g
Created on: Thursday 20th June 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 24th July 2013
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Record ID: WMID-540804
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy sestertius of Hadrian dating to the period AD 132 to 134 (Reece period 6). IVSTITIA AVG P P COS III S C or IVSTITIA AVG COS III P P S C reverse type depicting Justitia seated left holding patera and sceptre. Mint of Rome. RIC II, p. 432, no. 710 or 711.
Created on: Monday 22nd April 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd April 2013
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Record ID: WMID-BC6755
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A copper alloy sestertius of Claudius (AD 41-54), dating to AD 41-54 (Reece Period 2). Reverse: SPES AVGVSTA, Spes advancing left, holding flower and raising skirt. RIC I (revised edition), p. 128, no. 99 or p. 130, no. 115. 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 from t…
Created on: Monday 13th April 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 9th October 2019
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Record ID: WMID-F907B6
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper alloy coin, probably a sestertius, probably of Commodus, dating to c. AD 180-92 (Reece Period 9). Reverse type unclear but possibly depicts two standing figures. Mint of Rome. The portrait does appear to be that of Commodus and the coin appears to have lost weight due to corrosion of the edge. Diameter: 26.7 mm Thickness: 3.7 mm Weight: 12.7 g
Created on: Tuesday 28th April 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 29th April 2015
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Record ID: WMID-49C41E
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy sesterius of Marcus Aurelius (AD 161 to AD 180), dating to the period Dec AD 175 to Dec AD 176. Minted in Rome. IMP VIII COS CLEMENTIA AVG S C reverse type depicting Clementia standing left, holding patera and cornucopia. RIC vol III, p. 305, no 1161. Diameter: 31.6 mm Thickness: 4.2 mm Weight: 19.0 g
Created on: Tuesday 26th May 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 26th May 2015
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Record ID: WMID-C7B13D
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A copper alloy sestertius of Marcus Aurelius (AD 161-80), dating to AD 161-80 (Reece Period 8), uncertain reverse. Mint of Rome. Diameter: 29.6 mm Thickness: 4.0 mm Weight: 15.1 g
Created on: Wednesday 19th November 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 19th November 2014
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Record ID: WMID-1C930E
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy sestertius of uncertain Emperor, but of 1st to 3rd Century AD dating. Reverse type uncertain. Diameter: 34.3 mm Thickness: 4.1 mm Weight: 20.3 g
Created on: Friday 5th December 2014
Last updated: Friday 5th December 2014
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Record ID: WMID-CA4EA7
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete struck / hammered copper alloy sesterius, probably of Elagabalus (AD 218-222), dating to AD 221 (Reece Period 10), probably P M TR P III COS III (P P / DES IIII) S C, Providentia standing left. Mint of Rome, RIC IV, pt 2, pp. 54-5, cf. nos. 321 & 332. Diameter: 28.3 mm Thickness: 4.1 mm Weight: 15.9 g
Created on: Wednesday 20th November 2013
Last updated: Thursday 21st November 2013
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