Record ID: BM-256D94
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy Roman contemporary copy of an as of Claudius I (AD 41-54) (Reece period 2). Reverse type depicting Minerva advancing right holding javelin and shield, S C in the field. Copy of RIC I, pp. 128 & 130, nos. 100 & 116; cf. an example in the British Museum collection (1934,0905.129); G, Boon, Counterfeit Coins in Roman Britain, plate IV, cf. nos. 49-54. 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 assignin…
Created on: Wednesday 21st September 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 15th January 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mansfield Woodhouse', grid reference and parish protected.