LOT 3190
Group of Six [6] AR Roman Denarii. 1st century BC-2nd century AD.
Various rulers. Fine to Good Very Fine.(18.36gr total.). [6]
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a London antiquarian, formed since the 1980s.
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Group of Twenty-Nine [29] Roman Imperial AE Coins. Circa 2nd-4th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Various emperors. 142gr total.
Fine to Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market; Property of an Essex, UK, collector. -
Crispus, as Caesar BI Nummus. AD 316-326.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Siscia mint; struck AD 320-321. 2nd officina. IVL CRISPVS NOB C, laureate head to right / CAESARVM NOSTRORVM, wreath enclosing VOT • V in two lines; BSIS(star) in exergue. RIC VII 161. 3.74gr, 20mm 7h.
Extremely Fine. Some original silvering remaining.
From a private collection, UK. -
Aureolus, Romano-Gallic Usurper, BI Antoninianus. AD 268-269.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Mediolanum (Milan) mint; struck mid AD 268. 2nd officina. In the name of Postumus. IMP POSTVMVS AVG, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Postumus to right / CONCORD EQVIT, Concordia standing to left, holding patera with right hand and rudder with left; her right foot on prow of galley to left; S in exergue. RIC V.2 (Postumus) 373; RIC V.4 446; AGK (Postumus) 6a. 3.03gr, 20mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
Aureolus was an extraordinarily capable general who served under Valerian and Gallienus. He revolted against Gallienus in AD 267, who sieged him in the city of Mediolanum (Milan) where these coins were struck.
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