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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Jovian AR Siliqua. AD 363-364. Constantinople(?) mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £117
D N IOVIANVS P F AVG, pearl-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust to right / Laurel wreath enclosing VOT V MVL X in four lines; TCONST(?) in exergue. Cf. RIC IX 331. 1.66gr, 17mm, 11h.
Near Very Fine.
Found Gloucestershire, UK. Acquired from the early 1980s. From the private collection of a late Gloucestershire, UK, gentleman; thence by descent. -
Romano-British Imitation of Constans AE 16mm. 4th century AD. Following Arles mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
CONSTANS P F AVG, diademed, draped and cuirassed bust to right / VICTORIAE DD AVGG Q NN, two Victories standing, facing one another, each holding wreath; monogram of MA between; SARL in exergue. For prototype cf. RIC VIII 79. 1.82gr, 16mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
Found Yorkshire, UK. From the private collection of Robin Sykes, Yorkshire, UK, formed since the late 1990s. -
Tiberius, as Caesar, AE Semis. AD 12-14. Lugdunum mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
TI CAESAR AVGVST F IMPERAT VII, laureate head to right / ROM ET AVG, front elevation of the Altar of Lugdunum, decorated with the corona civica between laurels and stylized figures; altar flanked by columns surmounted by statues of Victory standing vis-à-vis, each holding palm frond and wreath. RIC 246; BMC 588; Cohen 38. 4.66gr, 20mm, 4h.
Very Fine.
Acquired 1970s-1996. Property of a North American collector. London collection, 2016.
