Record ID: SF-44940D
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy contemporary copy of a Roman dupondius of Claudius (AD 41-54), dating to the period c. AD 41-54 (Reece Period 2). CERES AVGVSTA reverse type depicting Ceres, seated left, holding grain ears and long torch. 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 contempo…
Created on: Thursday 11th May 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd October 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Icklingham', grid reference and parish protected.