Denarius Sextus Pompeius BC 42-40
Roman coins spanning around 100 years have been found in the
area. Some are made from Orichalcum, which is a shiny golden
coloured bronze and others copper and silver.
There were many Roman forts and camps around the area where they
were found and may have been dropped and lost or deliberately
buried for safe keeping.
At this time these coins would have been struck somewhere on the
continent and brought to Britain with the Roman military.
The process of minting involved either sheets of metal being
rolled out and blanks cuts out of it or sometimes by pouring hot
metal into moulds.
The die stamps bearing the images for each side of the coin
would be carved into iron. One would be placed facing upwards with
a heated blank sitting on top and the other die would be placed on
top. It would then be struck really hard with a mallet to punch the
images into the coin.
Many men probably slaves would be involved in the process and
the work was very hard as anything up to 2.5 million coins may have
been produced in a month.
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