COIN (ROMAN)

A silver Roman Republican denarius of Sufenas (59 BC), mint of Rome, RRC 421/1.

Ruler: Republic
Moneyer: Nonius Sufenas, M.
Denomination: Denarius (Roman Republic)
Material: Silver
Mint: Rome
Mintmark: None
Obverse: Head of Saturn right; behind, harpa and oval object. Border of dots.
Obverse legend: S·C SVFENAS
Reverse: Roma seated left on pile of armour, holding sceptre in right hand and sword in left hand; behind, Victory holding palm-branch in left hand and crowning Roma with right hand; around, inscription. Border of dots.
Reverse legend: PR·L·V·P·F SEX·NONI
Dated: -59.0 to 
Parish: Caerleon
District: Newport
County: Newport
Region: Wales
Discovery method: Controlled archaeological investigation (stratified)
RRC reference: rrc-421.1
Notes: 
This data is sourced from the corpus of work produced by Peter Guest and Nick Wells, entitled "Iron Age and Roman coins of Wales. There are no images to accompany this series and our staff did not identify these coins. Questions about these data should be directed to Dr Guest/ Dr Wells.