Record ID: WILT-00E51D
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy Roman contempary copy of an as of Claudius I dating to the period AD 41-53 (Reece period 2). Reverse type showing Minerva advancing holding javelin and shield. 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 native copy.
Created on: Tuesday 14th June 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 15th January 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lacock', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-104E16
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A possible copper alloy Roman as of Claudius I dating to c.AD 41 - 54 (Reece Period 2). Reverse rype Minerva walking right with spear and shield. Uncertain mint. 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 native copy.
Created on: Monday 27th June 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 15th January 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WILT-D1C61D
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Bath and North East Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
A copper alloy contemporary copy of an as of Caligula (AD 37-41) (Reece Period 1), struck in honour of Marcus Agrippa (died 12 BC), S C, Neptune standing left. Prototype Mint of Rome - RIC I, p. 112, no. 58. For a copy, see Boon, Counterfeit Coins in Roman Britain, plate III, no. 36. A number of these copies have been found recently on the excavations at the Bloomberg Site in London (Julian Bowsher, pers. comm.). The coin appears to have been serrated which is a phenomenon noted by Dr Philippa Walton has noted on coins from Piercebridge.
Created on: Wednesday 6th July 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 8th November 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wellow', grid reference and parish protected.