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Verica Tiberius silver unit
Coin 15 · Verica (Southern region: Atrebates and Regni)
A silver unit of Verica with a Roman-style laureate head on one face and a naked standing figure between the letters COM and MI F on the other.
- Issuer or group
- Verica (Southern region: Atrebates and Regni)
- Metal
- Silver unit
- Date (record)
- AD 10–40
- Catalogue refs (record)
- ABC 1250
- Specimen
- PAS 811486
- Specimen size
- Not in the record. The model is about 12.6 mm across, estimated from the scale in the photograph.
Obverse. Laureate head right, with letters at the edges (not described in the record).
Reverse. Naked standing figure with a lituus (curved staff) at the left, COM to the left and MI F to the right.
The record's wording about which hand holds the staff and which holds the grapes is inconsistent, so we do not say which hand holds what.
Features
| # | Feature | Face | As-minted evidence | On the found coin | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Head right | Obverse | Observed in the photo | Survives on this find | A head facing right in a Roman style, with a clear eye, nose and chin. |
| 2 | Laurel wreath | Obverse | Observed in the photo | Survives on this find | Leaves of a wreath running over the top of the head. |
| 3 | Wreath ties | Obverse | Observed in the photo | Survives on this find | Twisted ribbons hanging down behind the neck. |
| 4 | Letters at right edge | Obverse | Observed in the photo | Partly visible on this find | Round letter shapes in front of the face, near the right edge. |
| 5 | Standing figure | Reverse | Observed in the photo | Survives on this find | A naked figure standing at the centre, with one arm reaching to the left. |
| 6 | Lituus (curved staff) | Reverse | Observed in the photo | Survives on this find | A staff ending in a tight spiral, at the upper left. |
| 7 | Letters COM | Reverse | Observed in the photo | Survives on this find | COM to the left of the figure. |
| 8 | Letters MI F | Reverse | Observed in the photo | Partly visible on this find | Letters to the right of the figure, which the record reads as MI F. |
In the record but not modelled
- Bunch of grapes: Named in the record as held up by the figure. Something is raised at the upper right, but we cannot identify it as grapes from the photo, so it is not marked.
The found specimen
- Wear
- Light: the hair, wreath and facial features are crisp.
- Corrosion
- Slight dark toning in the hollows.
- Strike
- Well struck; the reverse design runs slightly off the flan at the upper right.
- Completeness
- Complete; slightly irregular outline.
These are descriptions, not grades. Thickness in the model: inferred (no weight or thickness recorded): set to 8.5% of the diameter.
Source and licence
Based on a photograph by Edwin Wood / The Portable Antiquities Scheme, via the Portable Antiquities Scheme and Wikimedia Commons (file page as retrieved, revision 1084046712), licensed CC BY 2.0. Changes: the two faces were cut out of the photograph, rotated and rescaled to a common frame, and used to make an interpretive 3D reconstruction. Depth, the edge and unseen surfaces are inferred, not measured. The as-minted version is further cleaned, restored and recoloured by us.
SHA-256 of the archived original: 252cbbb67cd2c36ef31edb03cc7a1bf91689f640421909729f73dd59cdf6e20f. Retrieved 2026-10-16.