LOT 3302
Augustus AR Denarius. 16 BC. Rome mint. C. Antistius Vetus, moneyer.
[C ANTISTIVS] VETVS III VIR, draped bust of Venus to right, wearing stephane / COS [I]MP CAESAR • AVGV XI in three lines, simpulum and lituus above; tripod and patera below. RIC I 367; BMCRE 98-99; RSC 348. Near Very Fine. Bankers' marks on both sides.(3.77gr, 17mm, 11h.).
ProvenanceFound Gloucestershire, UK.
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Group of Forty-Three [43] Roman Imperial AE Coins. 1st-4th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Various emperors. 218gr total.
Condition as seen.
Found Suffolk, UK. (UK buyers only, not for export) -
Hadrian AR Denarius. AD 119-122. Rome mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
IMP CAESAR TRAIAN HADRIANVS AVG, laureate and draped bust to right / P M TR P COS III, Genius standing to left, holding patera above altar to left, and corn-ears. Cf. RIC II.3 90 (bust type). 2.77gr, 19mm, 6h.
Near Very Fine.
Acquired 1970s-1996. Property of a North American collector. London collection, 2016. -
Claudius II Gothicus BI Antoninianus. AD 268-270. Cyzicus mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
IMP CLAVDIVS P F AVG, radiate head to right; two pellets below / VICTORIAE GOTHIC, trophy with two bound and seated captives at base. RIC V online 979. 3.08gr, 20mm, 4h.
Near Very Fine.
Found Essex. 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.
