Romano-British Imitations of Bronze Coins of Claudius I

For nearly a century the existence in England of considerable numbers of "barbarous" bronze coins, imitated from types of Claudius I, has been recognized. But beyond the recording of stray specimens here and there, little has been done in the way of a general survey of these imitations, and it was left to Cohen to voice the first theory regarding their provenance. His view that they are of British manufacture is at variance with other opinions that have been expressed more recently: and the object of this paper is to reopen the question and examine it in the light of more comprehensve evidence than appears to have been available before.