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Description: | A group of twenty Roman silver coins of a denomination known as the denarius (plural denarii). The latest coin of the group is a denarius of Trajan dating to c. 103-111 AD. The earliest coin is a Roman Republican denarius issued by M. Aburius Geminus dating to 132 BC. The coins can be summarised as follows: Roman Republic 10 Augustus (31 BC - AD 14) 1 Tiberius (AD 14 - 37) 4 Claudius (AD 41 - 54) 1 Nero (AD 54 - 68) 1 Nerva (AD 96-98) 1 Trajan (AD 98-117) 1 Barbarous imitation of a coin of Tiberius 1 Total 20 Roman Republican coins are known to have still been in circulation during the second century AD. The coins in this find could therefore have circulated together in the early second century AD. The fact that they were found in the same field and were in a good state of preservation suggests that, on balance of probability, they are likely to have been part of a scattered hoard (possibly dispersed by ploughing in the past). Dr. Eleanor Ghey | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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