Record ID: FASAM-91B6B9
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Gold aureus of Claudius (AD 41-54), dating to AD 41-42 (Reece Period 2), CONSTANTIAE AVGVSTI, Constantia seated left on curule chair, feet on stool with right hand raised. Mint of Lugdunum. RIC I, p. 122, no. 13; BMC I, no. 11.
Created on: Friday 14th April 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 18th April 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North of Colchester', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-DE6040
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman coin, probably a contemporary copy of an as of Cladius, dating from c. AD 43 - 65. 'Minerva type' reverse. Obverse is bust of emperor facing left. [...]DIVS CAESA[...] Reverse is Minerva standing right with spear and shield. S C in field.
Created on: Wednesday 10th April 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 12th February 2020
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Record ID: SF-4E430D
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy Roman dupondius of Antonia (AD 41-54), dating to AD 41-52 (Reece Period 2). TI CLAVDIVS CAESAR AVG P M TR P IMP reverse type depicting Claudius standing left holding stipulum in right hand; S-C in the field. Mint of Rome. As RIC I, p. 132, no. 82.
Created on: Friday 22nd March 2019
Last updated: Monday 7th October 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tolleshunt D'Arcy', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-2C7051
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
A gold Roman aureus of Claudius (AD 41 - 54), dating to the period AD 41-42 (Reece period 2). Obverse: TI CLAVD CAESAR AVG GERM P M TR P, laureate head right. Reverse: CONSTANTIAE AVGVSTI, Constantia seated left on curule chair, feet on stool, right hand raised. Mint of Rome. As RIC I (2nd ed.), p.121, no. 2.
Created on: Monday 21st May 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 6th June 2018
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Record ID: ESS-A7F3F7
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy contemporary copy of a Roman as of Claudius dating to the period AD 43-54 (Reece Period 2). Minerva reverse type depicting S C in field, Minerva advancing right, helmeted and draped, hurling javelin and holding round shield. cf. RIC I, p.128, no.100. 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…
Created on: Tuesday 28th March 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 4th December 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mayland', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-5E52AA
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A very poor copy of a copper alloy as of Claudius (AD 41-54). Reece period 2. Minerva reverse, Minerva advancing right with shield and javelin. RIC Vol I, p129, No. 66. The decoration is incredibly crude and there is damage around the edge so it is smaller than it's original size. 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 operate…
Created on: Friday 13th May 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 15th January 2020
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Record ID: ESS-0AA95C
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman copper alloy As of Claudius (AD 41-54), dating AD 41-42. Reece period 2. Reverse depicts Minerva advancing right, brandishing spear and shield. Minted in Rome. RIC I, no. 100. 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 from the Lyon II, à la Petite Tête, mint. …
Created on: Monday 9th May 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 4th December 2019
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Record ID: IARCH-D00411
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
IARCH record for a fused hoard of coins and jewellery found in Colchester during excavations by Colchester Archaeological Trust. Full details are not yet available due to ongoing conservation work. The latest coins fully identified are denarii of Augustus but the hoard contains copper alloy coins thought to be Claudian in date. N. Crummy writes: "The objects consist of gold and silver bracelets, a silver chain, gold finger-rings, gold and pearl earrings, a lidded wooden box covered with thin silver sheet and set on ivory legs, a copper-alloy pendant, a glass intaglio, and about 22 …
Created on: Thursday 2nd April 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Colchester High Street', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-051E84
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
During eval. at St Helena School, Sheepen Rd, Colchester. Pit F1 contained R-B pottery incl amphorae sherds dated mid- to late 1st century AD, CBM, iron nails, animal bone, & a group of five copper-alloy coins dated c AD 43-64. These consisted of an illegible as, an as of Agrippa minted under Caligula (AD 37-41), two copies of Claudius I asses (c AD 43-64) & a dupondius of Antonia minted under Claudius I (c AD 41-54).
Created on: Wednesday 11th March 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Colchester (Sheepen Road)', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-ED9452
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
A copper alloy contemporary copy of an as of Claudius (AD 41-54), dating to c. AD 41-54. Reverse depicts Minerva advancing left, holding javelin and shield. For prototypem cf. RIC I (revised edition), p. 128, no. 100. 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 contemporary c…
Created on: Tuesday 10th March 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 4th December 2019
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Record ID: IARCH-D9419F
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Seven Claudian copper alloy coins said to have been found 'together' in mud from the river Colne at Colchester, possiby in the Sheepen area. No further details of the context are known. The hoard was seen at a coin fair and reported by Kenyon (Crummy 1987, 75).
Created on: Monday 9th March 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'River Colne', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-D77965
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Six coins found in associated with box fittings "of a type often associated with casket burials" (Crummy 1987, 75) from Culver Street site J (insula 34) in Colchester.
Created on: Monday 9th March 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Colchester (Culver St site J)', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-4D1980
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 5 no. 18: ""During the last few years building operations have been carried on to a considerable extent on that part of the ancient Roman cemetery which lies to the west of Colchester. In forming Beverley Road, which runs nearly due south and at right angles to the Lexden Road, many Roman remains were discovered In digging the foundations of the houses on each side of that road, other objects were brought to light, the most important being the group figured in plate xlvi, which was discovered in the south east corner of the road, immediately behind the house belonging…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Colchester', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-A0BEE4
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 5-6 no. 20: ""The area, formerly Provident Place, and now Balkerne Gardens, has in the past been prolific in Roman finds. In the summer of 1965, No 5 Balkerne Gardens was demolished, and the site thus became available for excavation." Rosalind K. Dunnett, In Trans. Essex Arch. Soc. (3), 3 (1971), 50-61 The coins found included the following: Phase 1 from the filling of pit 4 Claudius 1 1 Phase 2 from the surface of the final phase 2 occupation level Claudius 1 4 (1 copy) "These four coins were found together and constitute a small hoard. Two were badly burnt." T…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Colchester (Balkerne Gardens)', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-204DDE
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 5 no. 19: ""Twenty-eight Roman coins. Of these 27 were found in a pot in the centre of Colchester. The pot was broken and lost; the coins were burnt, but such of them as can be identified, and that is nearly all, are of M. Agrippa and Claudius. All the coins are second brass, the 28th is a second brass of Claudius. Given by the late Alderman A.M. Jarmin." Colchester and Essex Museum Rep. 1927, 24 M.R. Hull, in Trans. Essex Arch. Soc., n.s., XIX (1930), 57, gave a list of the 27 coins, with types: "Second brass" Agrippa 4 Claudius 13 uncertain, but similar to abo…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Colchester (St. Martin's House)', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: FASAM-2FEE44
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Silver denarius of Claudius (AD 41-54), dating to AD 50-4 (Reece Period 2), AGRIPPINAE AVGVSTAE, bust of Agrippina right. Mint of Rome. RIC I, p. 126, no. 81
Created on: Thursday 19th December 2013
Last updated: Thursday 19th December 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Uttlesford District', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-1EBA48
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman copper alloy contemporary copy of an as of Claudius dating to AD43 - AD54 (Reece Period 2). Reverse depicts Minerva advancing right. 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 contemporary copy of those minted at the Lyon I, à la Grosse Tête, mint.
Created on: Monday 19th August 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 27th November 2019
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Record ID: ESS-1EAEE1
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman copper alloy copy of an as of Claudius dating to AD43 - AD54 (Reece Period 2). Reverse depicts Minerva advancing right. 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 contemporary copy of those minted at the Lyon II, à la Petite Tête.
Created on: Monday 19th August 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 4th December 2019
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Record ID: CAM-44DE77
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman copper alloy dupondius of Claudius dating to AD41 - AD50 (Reece Period 2). Reverse legend reads CERE[S AVGV]STA. Reverse shows Ceres veiled and draped seated left on ornamental throne holding two corn ears and a long torch. Ref: RIC I p. 127 no. 94 or p. 129 no. 110 Obverse legend reads [TI CLAVD]IVS CAESAR AVG PM TR P [IMP...]. Obverse shows bare head, left. Reverse fields read: / //SC. Die axis is 9 o'clock. Weight is 10.86g, Diameter is 27.28mm, Thickness is 3.40mm. Robert Kenyon, following on from the work by the French scholars P-A. Besombes and M. Bompaire (in Tré…
Created on: Tuesday 9th April 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd October 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Uttlesford District Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: FASAM-D2D5A4
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Gold aureus of Claudius (AD 41-54), PACI AVGVSTAE, Rome, AD 46-7. RIC I, p. 123, no. 38. Reece 2
Created on: Friday 11th November 2011
Last updated: Monday 28th June 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Colchester area', grid reference and parish protected.