LOT 3370
Antoninus Pius AE As. AD 155-156. Rome mint.
ANTONINVS AVG [PIVS P P IMP II?], laureate head to right / TR POT XIX [COS IIII?], Annona seated to right, holding cornucopia with both hands; S C in exergue. Cf. RIC III 956. Near Very Fine.(10.22gr, 25mm, 5h.).
ProvenanceAcquired 1970s-1996.
Property of a North American collector.
London collection, 2016.
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Divus Constantine I AE 16mm. AD 347-348. Alexandria mint. 1st officina.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
D V CONSTANTINVS P T AVGG, veiled head to right / Deified emperor standing to right; VN-MR across fields, SMALA in exergue. RIC VIII 32. 1.76gr, 16mm, 12h.
Near Extremely Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, gentleman. -
Maximian BI Nummus. AD 297-298. Heraclea mint. 3rd officina.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
IMP C GAL VAL MAXIMIANVS P F AVG, laureate head to right / GENIO POPVLI ROMANI, Genius standing to left, holding patera and cornucopia; HTΓ in exergue. RIC VI 24b. 10.68gr, 29mm, 12h.
Near Extremely Fine.
Acquired 1970s-1996. Property of a North American collector. London collection, 2016. -
Divus Antoninus Pius AR Denarius. After AD 161. Rome mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £91
DIVVS ANTONINVS, bare-headed bust to right, slight drapery on far shoulder / CONSECRATIO, pyre of four tiers, decorated with hangings and garlands, surmounted by quadriga. RIC III 438 (Aurelius); BMCRE 60-64 (Aurelius & Verus); RSC 164a. 3.10gr, 18mm, 6h.
Good Very Fine.
From the private collection of a Canadian gentleman living in Essex, UK, formed since the 1920s-circa 1990. Property of an Essex lady until the the late 1990s; thence by descent. From the private collection of an Essex gentleman since the late 1990s.
