Record ID: WILT-6B35C8
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A contemporary native copy copper-alloy Roman As of the Emperor Claudius I dating to the period AD 41 - 54 (Reece Period 2). Minerva walking right with spear and shield, with S to her left and C to her right. roRobert 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 native copy.
Created on: Monday 12th September 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 15th January 2020
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