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Quadrans - Claudius PON M TR P IMP COS DES IT
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint |
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| Year | 41 |
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| Value | 1 Quadrans = 1/4 As = 1⁄64 Denarius |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Claudius struck this quadrans in his first year as emperor, almost certainly as a practical acknowledgment that the lowest bronze denomination had fallen out of circulation under Caligula. The abbreviation PON M TR P IMP COS DES IT on the reverse is unusually compressed titulature for a quadrans, suggesting the issue was as much about reasserting imperial presence in everyday commerce as filling a genuine monetary gap.
RIC I 85 is one of several Claudian quadrantes distinguished by the absence of any portrait — a deliberate archaism harking back to Republican anonymous bronze.