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Finds from Wirral<\/h1>\n

LVPL-257DE2 – ROMAN Coin
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Look into the, sadly rather battered, face of the Roman Emperor Antoninus Puis AD 138-161. <\/strong><\/p>\n

The coin is one of our recent finds from Wirral and dates from AD143-144. <\/div>\n
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It has been verified and recorded by the Portable Antiquities Scheme with the below reference <\/div>\n
https:\/\/finds.org.uk\/database\/artefacts\/record\/id\/1103158<\/a>.<\/div>\n
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The reverse of the coin shows Victory holding trophies in her hands. <\/div>\n
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A military expedition into Scotland during the reign of Antoninus Pius resulted in the construction of the Antonine Wall. This was built some 20 years after Hadrians wall and was a turf rampart and ditch around 39 miles long <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Four of these are listed on the PAS database and we have a couple more awaiting verification.\u00a0 \u00a0 They normally look like the one above which has been verified as a Roman Sestertius but cannot be\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Finds"","block_context":{"text":"Finds","link":"https:\/\/wirralarchaeology.org\/pages\/category\/finds\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wirralarchaeology.org\/pages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/LVPL-CFDE13-scaled.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wirralarchaeology.org\/pages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/LVPL-CFDE13-scaled.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wirralarchaeology.org\/pages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/LVPL-CFDE13-scaled.jpeg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wirralarchaeology.org\/pages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/LVPL-CFDE13-scaled.jpeg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wirralarchaeology.org\/pages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/LVPL-CFDE13-scaled.jpeg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wirralarchaeology.org\/pages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/LVPL-CFDE13-scaled.jpeg?resize=1400%2C800&ssl=1 4x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1347,"url":"https:\/\/wirralarchaeology.org\/pages\/roman-valentinian-i-coin\/","url_meta":{"origin":1556,"position":4},"title":"Roman – Valentinian I Coin","author":"Wirral Archaeology","date":"24\/02\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Finds from Wirral Roman - Valentinian I Coin This is dated AD 364-AD375 and of the reign of the emperor Valentinian I. 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Reverse type\u00a0GLORIA ROMANORVM; depicting emperor advancing right, holding standard\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "News"","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/wirralarchaeology.org\/pages\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wirralarchaeology.org\/pages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Valentinian-Coin-scaled.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wirralarchaeology.org\/pages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Valentinian-Coin-scaled.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wirralarchaeology.org\/pages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Valentinian-Coin-scaled.jpeg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wirralarchaeology.org\/pages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Valentinian-Coin-scaled.jpeg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wirralarchaeology.org\/pages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Valentinian-Coin-scaled.jpeg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wirralarchaeology.org\/pages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Valentinian-Coin-scaled.jpeg?resize=1400%2C800&ssl=1 4x"},"classes":[]},{"id":2172,"url":"https:\/\/wirralarchaeology.org\/pages\/silver-denarius\/","url_meta":{"origin":1556,"position":5},"title":"Silver Denarius","author":"Wirral Archaeology","date":"04\/06\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Finds from Wirral - Silver Denarius Another Roman coin in good condition. This is a silver denarius from the reign of Septimis Severus who reigned from AD 193-211. As with the previous coin there is sufficient detail to date to a year which in this case is AD 198. https:\/\/finds.org.uk\/database\/artefacts\/record\/id\/1168197\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Finds"","block_context":{"text":"Finds","link":"https:\/\/wirralarchaeology.org\/pages\/category\/finds\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wirralarchaeology.org\/pages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Roman_Coin2__1154435.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wirralarchaeology.org\/pages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Roman_Coin2__1154435.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wirralarchaeology.org\/pages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Roman_Coin2__1154435.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wirralarchaeology.org\/pages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Roman_Coin2__1154435.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wirralarchaeology.org\/pages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Roman_Coin2__1154435.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/wirralarchaeology.org\/pages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/LVPL-2F1A29_b-scaled.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wirralarchaeology.org\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wirralarchaeology.org\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wirralarchaeology.org\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wirralarchaeology.org\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wirralarchaeology.org\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1556"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wirralarchaeology.org\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1558,"href":"https:\/\/wirralarchaeology.org\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556\/revisions\/1558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wirralarchaeology.org\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wirralarchaeology.org\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wirralarchaeology.org\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wirralarchaeology.org\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}