Record ID: NARC-41E2C5
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Published
Roman coin: copper alloy As of Claudius (AD 41-54) of the 'Minerva' type. Obv: Bareheaded bust left /TI CLA Rev: Minerva advancing right with shield and javelin/ SC RIC Vol I, p129, No. 66. Very worn, coppery red colour apparent. 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…
Created on: Tuesday 28th August 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 4th December 2019
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Record ID: NARC-FECE82
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An early Roman copper alloy coin, probably an as of Claudius I (AD 41-54). The coin is very worn, and the obverse bust is not discernible, but the reverse features a single standing figure facing right, holding a spear; probably Minerva. The obverse inscription is invisible, but the reverse reads S [C] in the fields, and has no legend. The rendering of Minerva is rather rough, so this may be a contemporary copy, but the coin is too worn to be certain. RIC I, p129, no. 66. Robert Kenyon, following on from the work by the French scholars P-A. Besombes and M. Bompaire (in Trésors Monét…
Created on: Tuesday 20th March 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 12th February 2020
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