Record ID: SWYOR-829857
Object type: COIN
Broad period: GREEK AND ROMAN PROVINCIAL
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Published
A copper coin of uncertain date - Claudian or Neronian (Reece Periods 2 or 3). COHOR PRAE PHIL reverse type depicting three standards. Mint of Philippi. RPC I, p.308, no.1651. From RPC I, p.308: "these coins have always been assigned to the reign of Augustus, but some doubt now attaches to this in view of their composition, which is copper rather than bronze. At Philippi, and indeed elsewhere in Macedonia, copper is not found before the reign of Claudius, so a Claudian-Neronian date seems likely."
Created on: Tuesday 31st January 2012
Last updated: Thursday 11th June 2020
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