Record ID: BM-3F94C9
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy Roman dupondius of Antonia (AD 41-54), contemporary copy, dating to the period AD 41-54 (Reece period 2). TI CLAVDIVS CAESAR AVG P M TRP IMP reverse type depicting Claudius togate standing left holding simpulum and resting left hand at side. Uncertain mint. Cf. BMC no. 168. 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 wh…
Created on: Thursday 22nd September 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 6th November 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stonea Grange', grid reference and parish protected.