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Record ID: LIN-B06D60
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An As of Claudius dating to AD 42. Reverse depicts Minerva advancing right brandishing spear and holding shield. Mint of Rome. SEAR, page 368, number 1862. (RIC 116). 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 could not be classified as a contemporary copy, nor from an auxiliary …
Created on: Thursday 21st March 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 19th February 2020
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