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Lot nuber 466

Commemorative Series. AD 330-354. Æ Follis (13mm, 0.70 g, 6h). Imitating Urbs Roma type from Lugdnum (Lyon) mint. Unofficial mint in East Anglia. Struck circa AD 335-339.


Electronic Auction 495
Lot: 466.
 Estimated: $ 75

Roman Imperial, Bronze

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Commemorative Series. AD 330-354. Æ Follis (13mm, 0.70 g, 6h). Imitating Urbs Roma type from Lugdnum (Lyon) mint. Unofficial mint in East Anglia. Struck circa AD 335-339. Helmeted and mantled bust of Roma left / She-wolf standing left, head right, suckling the twins Romulus and Remus; two stars above; [P]LG. A. Marsden, “Contemporary Imitations of Constantine’s Wolf & Twins Coinage” in Treasure Hunting, June-July 2001, figs. 2 & 3. For prototype, cf. RIC VII 242. Brown patina, some roughness, hairline flan crack. VF.

Ex 1989 Nether Compton (Dorset) Hoard.

Imitations had circulated in widely in Britain during the Julio-Claudian period and the time of the Gallic Empire, but these were generally produced in Gaul and Spain. Certain imitations of the mid-330s, however, can be definitively shown to have been produced in Britain. Through hoard evidence and site finds, including the 1989 Nether Compton (Dorset) Hoard, the tangled web of this unofficial coinage can begin to be unwoven. Adrian Marsden has used stylistic linkages to identify two major centers of production, along with three smaller locations. These unofficial mints apparently produced a great volume of counterfeit coinage, as die duplicates are scarce.

This massive hoard of 22,670 Roman coins was found by Mike Pittard while metal detecting in a field near Nether Compton on 19th February 1989. The field is by the side of a trackway, the other side of which is a known Roman building. The actual finding of the hoard was photographed and report was published in The Searcher magazine (Issue 44, April 1989). The hoard was deposited with the Yeovil Museum by the finder in 1989. It was subsequently returned to the finder, sold, and dispersed through the trade in 1994. No detailed record was made of the content of the hoard. The Pottery vessel and some 33 additional coins that had remained stuck to the pot were donated to the museum and remain there. Although Nether Compton was never recorded or published, a limited amount of information has been gleaned from people who have handled it or part of it. It was a very large mid-Constantinian hoard and typical in composition, all but about 7% consisting of the very common bronze issues of the AD 330s (the Urbs Roma and Constantinopolis commemoratives and the Gloria Exercitus Type in the names of Constantine I and his sons). There were no coins of the two Victories type suggesting that the hoard was deposited around AD 339.

Closing Date and Time: 7 July 2021 at 12:35:00 ET.

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