Pièce de monnaie As de Claude

Lezoux (63) Musée départemental de la céramique

© Alain Maillot, collections du musée départemental de la céramique à Lezoux

Pièce de monnaie As de Claude Pièce de monnaie As de Claude
On the obverse of this coin we can read the legend in Latin: TI [CLAUDIVS CAESAR AVG PM TRP I]MP (translation: Tiberius Claudius Cæsar Augustus Pontifex Maximus Tribunicia Potestas Imperator - Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus, great pontiff, clothed with the tribunitian power and the imperial acclamation ) which accompanies the naked head of Emperor Claudius on the left; and on the reverse the legend: SC (translation: Senatus Consulte - by decree of the Senate) accompanies a representation of Minerva.

Where to find it

Lezoux (63) Musée départemental de la céramique
39, rue de la République

63190 Lezoux

Commune of discovery

Locality

Z.A.C. de l'Enclos

Type of intervention

Excavation

Year of excavation

1987

Chief Scientist

BET, Philippe

Inventory number

001-41-0004

Scope

Economy and trade ➔ Currency

Materials

Metal ➔ Copper alloy

Chronological period

Gallo-Roman [- 50 / 476] ➔ Early Imperial [27 / 235]

Dimensions

10.52 g

Bibliographie

Annick Fenet, Le site archéologique de la Z.A.C. de l’Enclos à Lezoux (Puy-de-Dôme) : premières approches, 1990.