LOT 3583
Antoninus Pius AE As. AD 140-144. Rome mint.
ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P TR P COS III, laureate head to right / CONCORDIA EXERCITVVM, Concordia standing facing, head to left, holding Victory on outstretched right hand and aquila with left; S C across fields. RIC III 678; BMCRE 1361. Near Very Fine.(10.03gr, 26mm, 11h.).
ProvenanceAcquired on the UK art market.
Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.
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Claudius AR Denarius. AD 41-54. Apparently Romano-British imitation of the Rome mint issue.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £598
TI CLAVD • CAES[...], laureate head to right / [...] AVGVSTAE, Pax-Nemesis advancing to right, holding caduceus; at feet, serpent. Cf. RIC I 10. 2.94gr, 18mm, 4h.
Near Very Fine.
Found Tendring, Essex. -
Magnentius AE Centenionalis. AD 350-353. Treveri mint. 1st officina.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
D N MAGNENTIVS P F AVG, bare-headed, draped and cuirassed bust to right, A behind bust / GLORIA ROMANORVM, emperor on horseback to right, holding shield on left arm, about to throw a spear at a bare-headed enemy in front of the horse, shield and broken spear beneath the horse; [T]RP(crescent) in exergue. RIC 271. 3.77gr, 19mm, 7h.
Good Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Postumus, Romano-Gallic Emperor AR Antoninianus. Struck AD 261. Treveri mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
IMP C POSTVMVS P F AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / P M TR P COS II P P, emperor in military attire standing to left, holding globe and spear. RIC V.2 54 (Lugdunum). 4.00gr, 22mm, 7h.
Very Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
