Record ID: SWYOR-353ABA
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman copper alloy coin: a probable contemporary copy of an As of Claudius (AD 41 - 54) dating from AD 41 - 64 (Reece Period 2). The reverse depicts Minerva advancing right holding a spear and a shield. Compare RIC I, 100. The coin is 25.5mm diameter, 2.4mm thick. 5.78g. 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 Lyo…
Created on: Tuesday 17th February 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 4th December 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bishop Norton', grid reference and parish protected.