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Lugdunum (Lyons, France)

Lugdunum, a city and colony of Gual; according to Herodianus a large and opulent city, now called Lyon, in central France.  The Roman mint at Lugdunum was open 15 B.C. - c. 90 A.D., 195 - 196 (for Clodius Albinus), and c. 254 - 423 A.D. (mintmark PLG). 


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Lugdunum, a city and colony of Gual; according to Herodianus a large and opulent city, now called Lyon, in central France. 

Havercamp (ad Morell Fam. p. 26) states that Lugdunum was made a Roman municipium under the provincial quaestorship of M. Antonius Creticus, the father of Mark Antony the triumvir.  It was furthermore invested with the jus civitatis Romanae by the Emperor Claudius, who, by his mother Anotonia, was related to the Antonii. 

An ancient copy of the decree of Claudius, upon brass plates, is preserved at Lyon.  They were discovered in 1528. 


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Lugdunum (Lyons, France)

Lugdunum, a city and colony of Gual; according to Herodianus a large and opulent city, now called Lyon, in central France.  The Roman mint at Lugdunum was open 15 B.C. - c. 90 A.D., 195 - 196 (for Clodius Albinus), and c. 254 - 423 A.D. (mintmark PLG). 


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Lugdunum, a city and colony of Gual; according to Herodianus a large and opulent city, now called Lyon, in central France. 

Havercamp (ad Morell Fam. p. 26) states that Lugdunum was made a Roman municipium under the provincial quaestorship of M. Antonius Creticus, the father of Mark Antony the triumvir.  It was furthermore invested with the jus civitatis Romanae by the Emperor Claudius, who, by his mother Anotonia, was related to the Antonii. 

An ancient copy of the decree of Claudius, upon brass plates, is preserved at Lyon.  They were discovered in 1528. 


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