LOT 3582
Antoninus Pius AE Dupondius. Circa AD 156-157. Rome mint.
ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P IMP [II?], radiate head to right / TR POT X-X C-OS II[II?], Jupiter standing facing, head to left, holding thunderbolt with right hand and sceptre with left; S C across fields.Cf. RIC 970; cf. Cohen 1012. Near Very Fine.(9.52gr, 24mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceAcquired on the UK art market.
Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.
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Postumus, Romano-Gallic Emperor AR Antoninianus. AD 262-263. Treveri mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
IMP C POSTVMVS P F AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / IOVI PROPVGNATORI, Jupiter advancing to left, head to right, holding thunderbolt and eagle. RIC V.2 72 (Lugdunum); RSC 155a corr. (rev. type). 3.40gr, 22mm, 1h.
Near Very Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Trajan AR Denarius. Struck AD 113-114. Rome mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £169
IMP TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P COS VI P P, laureate and draped bust to right / S P Q R OPTIMO PRINCIPI, Genius standing facing, head to left, holding patera and corn ears. RIC II 275; BMCRE 429-430; Woytek 421v; RSC 398. 3.27gr, 20mm, 7h.
Extremely Fine/Near Extremely Fine. Coin stored in square coin capsule.
Ex Bertolami Fine Arts - ACR Auctions, 5 December 2011, no.961. Ex ACR ArtCoins Roma, 20 May 2015, no.3192. Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity and provenance. -
Carus BI Antoninianus. AD 282-283. Antioch mint. 2nd officina.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
IMP C M AVR CARVS P F AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / VIRTVS AVGGG, Carus standing to right, holding parazonium, receiving Victory on globe from Jupiter, standing to left, leaning on sceptre; star in upper central field, B in lower central field, XXI in exergue. RIC 125. 3.58gr, 21mm, 6h.
Good Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
