Record ID: LVPL-451E81
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Brass dupondius of Claudius (AD 41-54), to the period AD 42 (Reece period 2). CERES AVGVSTA S C reverse type depicting Ceres enthroned holding corn ears and torch. Mint of Rome. Sear vol. 1 1856, 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 thos…
Created on: Tuesday 27th May 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd October 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Collingham', grid reference and parish protected.