ROMAN COIN
The Portable Antiquities Scheme

ROMAN COIN

395

CC0 — Public Domain
The Portable Antiquities Scheme

A Roman silver coin: probably a clipped siliqua of Arcadius (395-408), with reverse showing Roma seated on a cuirass, facing right, with inverted spear and holding Victory on a globe in her right hand, [VIRTVS ROMANORVM]. The legend on both sides is missing, but the portrait of the emperor and most of the reverse design are undamaged. It is 12.7mm in diameter and 1mm thick. It weighs 0.74gm. Compare Sear (1974) number 4127.An unclipped example of this coin can be found on the database at reference NARC-09D797.

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