Record ID: ASHM-AEEF4A
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A contemporary copy of a copper-alloy as of Claudius (AD 41-54), probably dating to the period AD 50-54. Reverse shows Minerva wielding javelin and shield. Reece period 2. Possibly minted in Britain or Gaul (or possibly made by the Roman army). 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. Th…
Created on: Wednesday 9th August 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 27th November 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Childrey', grid reference and parish protected.