Record ID: BM-F4B171
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Darlington
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy contemporary copy of an as of Claudius I, known as a 'Claudian copy' dating to the period AD 41 to 54 (Reece period 2). Minerva reverse type depicting Minerva standing right with shield and spear. 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…
Created on: Monday 18th June 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 27th November 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Piercebridge', grid reference and parish protected.