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Description: | A silver Roman denarius of Tiberius, AD 36-7. Obverse: head, laureate, right, [TI. CAE]SAR DIVI AVG F. AVG[VSTVS]. Reverse: female figure seated right, holding sceptre and branch, single line below, PONTIF [MA]XIM. It is in a fine condition but broken in two places and glued together. It weighs 2.67g and has a die axis of 6. Mattingley and Syndenham, Roman Imperial Coinage, Volume I, page 95, ref. 30.
This coin is part of a hoard of 5 Roman denarii coins, Object IDs ESS106093, ESS109370, ESS10C6B4, ESS10E334 and ESS10F9E3. The group would appear to represent at least part of an early denarius hoard of the mid-first century AD. Such hoards have been considered recently by Orna-Ornstein who notes a concentration in the eastern counties of England, especially Norfolk and Suffolk. It is generally believed that these hoards were deposited at the time of the Boudican revolt of AD 61/2. Given the proximity of Mersea Island to the colonia of Colchester sacked during the uprising it is certainly a possible explanation in this case. Orma-Ornstein, J. ??Early Hoards of Denarii from Britain??, in Coin Hoards from Roman Britain, Volume X, pages 23-9, figure 1. | Subjects: | Hoard | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Pooley, Laura - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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