Coin Finds of the Huddersfield
District
By Graham Teasdill
Edited By E. W. Aubrook
CHAPTER 2: ROMAN COINS
The Roman coinage was gradually introduced into Britain
by traders during the first century B.C. and the first century
A.D., and in Yorkshire it replaced the “Brigantian”
or “Coritanian” coinage completely by about
70 A.D. The coinage is of a high technical and artistic
quality and for more than four hundred years it circulated
freely throughout Asia Minor, most of Europe and North Africa.
It provided a stable and uniform currency which facilitated
trade and foreign travel. This was probably one of the main
factors contributing to the greatness of the Roman Empire.
A comprehensive list of hoards and individual discoveries
of Roman coins in the district was published by I.A. Richmond
in his “Huddersfield in Roman Times”, but very
few of these coins have found their way into the Museum
collections.
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