Find Spot record MDO1806 - Roman nummus coin found at Oborne

Roman coin, fourth century AD, Valentinian II 365-375, Arles mint, found. No further information given on circumstances or present location of find. (1)

The coin is likely to be made of copper alloy. (2)

<1> Bean, C E, Annotated record map Corr 6", March 1954 (Map). SDO16337.

(ST 65461849). Roman coin, 4th century, Valentinian I 364-375, Arles mint, found.

<2> Field Investigators Comments FC, F1 FC 26-AUG-55 (Unpublished document). SWX3544.

<3> Bean, C E, Oral information, correspondence (not archived) or staff comments: C E Bean, C Bean 26.8.55 (Verbal communication). SDO17480.

<4> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1956, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1955, 145 (Serial). SDO55.

'Romano-British occupation sites near Sherborne and Yeovil. Mr Bean has supplied details, summarised below, of a number of discoveries on new and previously recorded sites in the Sherborne area. Miscellaneous finds were … a coin of Valentinian I (in garden behind the old school, Oborne, 65461850).'

<5> 2010, Opinion of Ciorstaidh Hayward Trevarthen, Dorset Finds Liaison Officer (Verbal communication). SDO12317.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 199295 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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