Record ID: NMS-1B37E8
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy nummus of Crispus (AD 317-26), perhaps irregular but of very good style and carrying a mint signature (-//TT) appropriate to Ticinum. The reverse type of BEATA TRANQVILLITAS, Globe on altar, inscribed VOTIS XX, with three stars above, is attested at London, Lyons and Trier and is mentioned in RIC VII (pp.358 and 380note), but strangely not listed in the catalogue as a type issued at Ticinum. Presumably we are dealing here with a very rare official issue that did not advance much beyond the prototype stage. The plain bowl on the helmet worn by Crispus and the obverse legen…
Created on: Wednesday 17th December 2014
Last updated: Thursday 25th March 2021
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Record ID: LIN-665771
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
A late Roman copper alloy nummus of Crispus Caesar (AD 317-26), dating to c AD 320 (Reece Period 16), BEATA TRANQVILLITAS, Globe on altar, inscribed VOTIS XX, with three stars above. Mint of Ticinum. This issue is not recorded in the RIC catalogue, although it is included in the introduction (RIC VII, p. 380) and a coin of Crispus, with the same reverse, but obverse IVL CRIS-PVS NOB C, Laureate head right, is noted in the collection in Munich (RIC VII, p. 380 note). There is another piece of Crispus, with yet another obverse type, recorded on the PAS Database - NMS-1B37E8.
Created on: Tuesday 27th January 2004
Last updated: Thursday 25th March 2021
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