Record ID: SWYOR-2DA54B
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy Roman coin; a contemporary copy of an as of Claudius, dating from the period AD 41-54 (Reece period 2). Minerva reverse type, depicting Minerva advancing right with shield and javelin. This coin was probably struck in Britain. It is 25.7mm diameter, 3mm thick and 7.42g. 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 …
Created on: Friday 9th September 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 27th November 2019
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