Documentation for the Iron Age and Roman Coins from Wales database Finds details table - description of fields Find No (Primary key) unique numerical reference number for each separate find of coins from Wales (1 to 1172). Find type description of find type - see Thesaurus below Find name name of the find, usually the nearest settlement (multiple finds from a location identified by the year of discovery, or I, II, III etc) Find location nearest settlement to the find Community local administrative unit in Wales (equivalent of parish in England and Scotland) Unitary authority regional administrative unit in Wales (equivalent of county in England and Scotland) - see Thesaurus below. Region project regions consisting of various counties - see Thesaurus below. Easting 6 figure OS co-ordinates Northing 6 figure OS co-ordinates Detailed record? Is the find described in detail (yes = 1, no = 0) SMR PRN SMR reference number to the find Find description Short summary of the finds discovery and contents Latest Issuer (hoards) Only for Hoards (the latest coin contained in the hoard). tpq Period (hoards) Only for Hoards (the 'Issue Period' of the latest coin in a hoard - see thesaurus under entry in table Coin details). Primary Reference Primary bibliographic reference for the find (refers to entries in table 'Bibliography') Secondary Reference Secondary bibliographic reference for the find (refers to entries in table 'Bibliography'). 5 columns allow the recording of 5 secondary references (last 4 called Sec Ref) Coin details table - description of fields Find No Same as Find No in Table 1 (fields linked between tables) Coin No Number of each coin within its find Coin ID No (Primary key) Unique reference number of each coin from Wales. A combination of the Find No and Coin No separated by two forward slashes (i.e. the first coin from excavation assemblage 1 is 1//1) General period General period of coin's production - see Thesaurus below. Metal The metal from which the coin is made - see Thesaurus below. Weight weight recorded in grammes (where known) Diameter diameter recorded in millimetres (where known) Copy? If the coin is recorded as a copy then described as 'Copy', if not then left blank Denomination denomination of the coin - see Thesaurus below Issuer Authority responsible for issuing the coin (ruler, emperor, city, dynasty etc). Entries (x395) listed on file 'IARCW_Issuer'. Date from earliest date coin struck BC or AD BC creates minus values, AD plus values Date to latest date coin struck BC or AD BC creates minus values, AD plus values Issue Period Broad numismatic periods of issue into which the Roman period is divided. Includes periods at the beginning of the sequence (to account for Iron Age, Greek & Hellenistic coins) as well as at the end (for coins whose dates are uncertain) - see Thesaurus below. Reverse type reverse type of the coin - usually referred to using standard referenced entries Mint-mark records details of any mint marks. Follows British Museum method of recording mint marks, which is explained in the series Coin Hoards from Roman Britain thus: 'The following convention is used to denote the marks used on the reverses: - -//-, where the first - refers to the left field, the second to the right field and the third, after the //, to the exergue. Marks in the centre field are indicated as follows: A //XXI, and where marks in the field are on more than one level they are shown as follows: R - /A F//BSISC.' Mint mint where coin was struck (where known) Incomplete? Is the coin has been broken or damaged? (yes = 1, no = 0) Wear records wear of coin (where known or recorded) - see Thesaurus below Catalogue reference reference to standard numismatic catalogue (where known) Location Where the coin is currently held (if in a museum collection) Bibliography table - description of fields Reference Full bibliographic reference IARCW Issuers table - description of fields Issuer Coin issuer Date range Date of issue Rank This field can be used to order the coin issuers chronologically rather than alphabetically Finds details table - data thesauri * Find type Excavation - military Excavation - vicus / canabae Excavation - military + later Excavation - town / urban site Excavation - industrial site Excavation - rural settlement Excavation - hillfort Excavation - 'other' site Excavation - uncertain site Group Hoard Single Find * Unitary authority Blaenau Gwent Bridgend Caerphilly Cardiff Carmarthenshire Ceredigion Conwy Denbighshire Flintshire Gwynedd Isle of Anglesey Merthyr Tydfil Monmouthshire Neath/Port Talbot Newport Pembrokeshire Powys Rhondda, Cynon, Taff Swansea Torfaen Uncertain Vale of Glamorgan Wrexham * Region (with unitaries included in region) South-East Wales (Monmouthshire, Newport, Torfaen & Blaenau Gwent) South Wales (Cardiff, Caerphilly, Vale of Glamorgan, Merthyr Tydfil, Rhondda Cynon Taff, Bridgend, Neath/Port Talbot & Swansea) South-West Wales (Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire & Ceredigion) Central/East Wales (Powys) North Wales (Gwynedd, Isle of Anglesey, Conwy, Denbighshire, Flintshire & Wrexham) Uncertain (Uncertain) Coin details table - data thesauri * General period Iron Age Greek & Hellenistic Republican Roman Augustus & 1st Century AD Roman 2nd Century AD Roman 1st/2nd Century AD Roman 3rd Century AD Roman 4th Century AD Roman 3rd/4th Century AD Roman 5th Century AD Roman Uncertain * Metal Gold Silver Copper Alloy Billon Potin Uncertain * Denomination Argenteus As As (halved) Aureus Chalcos Contorniate Denarius Double aureus Drachm Dupondius Dupondius/As Half nummus Hexas Medallion Nummus Pentonkion Quadrans Quarter stater Quinarius Radiate Semis Semis/Quadrans Sestertius Siliqua Siliqua (clipped) Solidus Stater Tetradrachm Trias Uncertain Uncia Unit * Issue Period (stored value | date range for each period | which copies are included in the period) 0|Iron Age, Greek & Hellenistic 1|Roman to AD 41 2|41-54|Claudian copies 3|54-69 4|69-96 5|96-117 6|117-138 7|138-161 8|161-180 9|180-193 10|193-222 11|222-238 12|238-260 13|260-275 14|275-296|Radiate copies 15|296-317 16|317-330 17|330-348|GLORIA EXERCITVS etc. copies 18|348-364|FEL TEMP REPARATIO etc. copies 19|364-378 20|378-388 21|388-402 22|402 onwards 23|Uncertain 1st/2nd Century 24|Uncertain 3rd/4th Century 25|Uncertain * Wear Worn Slightly worn Unworn