File:Part of a Roman sesterces coin hoard obverse view (FindID 477845-360716).jpg

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part of a Roman sesterces coin hoard reverse view
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Birmingham Museums Trust, Tom Brindle, 2011-12-14 17:37:05
Title
part of a Roman sesterces coin hoard reverse view
Description
English: East Staffordshire area

Eleanor Ghey & Richard Abdy

34 Roman coins to AD 269 BM ref.: 2011 T903

PAS ref.: WMID-8DBFC7

Circumstances of discovery

This small third century sestertius hoard was found on 26th September 2011 whilst metal-detecting on cultivated land at a depth of between 6 and 12 inches. Some burnt wood and a pottery fragment was found at the same time.

The coins

Although this hoard has a small 'tail' of third century types down to Postumus, other hoards and D. R. Walker's analysis of the Bath assemblage demonstrate the reliance on the continuing circulation of the increasingly worn coins of the previous century. Thus the large group of illegible coins were probably mainly composed of earlier types that had become much worn. Identification was also hampered by corrosion and the fragmentary nature of the illegibles make their identification as sestertii (as opposed to lower denominations) somewhat subjective in some cases.

Summary of hoard:

Hadrian (AD 117-38) 1

Marcus Aurelius (AD 161-180) 1

Lucius Verus (AD 161-9) 2

Diva Faustina II 1

Wars of the Succession (AD 193-7):

Septimius Severus 1

Severus Alexander (AD 222-235) 1

Maximianus I (AD 235-8) 1

Decius (AD 249-51) 1

Postumus (AD 260-9) 2

Illegible 23

Total 34
Depicted place (County of findspot) Staffordshire
Date ROMAN
Accession number
FindID: 477845
Old ref: WMID-8DBFC7
Filename: Fisher Sesterces reverse.jpg
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/360715
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/360715/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/477845
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Object location52° 54′ 44.28″ N, 1° 58′ 33.85″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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