LOT 3148
Augustus AV Aureus. 27 BC-AD 14.
Lugdunum mint; struck 2 BC-AD 4. [CAESA]R AVGVSTVS DIVI F PATER [PATRIAE], laureate head to right / AVGVSTI F COS DESIG PRINC IVVENT, Gaius and Lucius Caesar standing facing, each togate and resting hand on shield; spear behind each shield, lituus and simpulum above, [C L] CAESARES in exergue. RIC I 206; BMCRE 513-18; Calicó 176; Lyon 81; BN 1648. Near Fine.(7.76gr, 19mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceEx Den of Antiquity, Cambridgeshire, UK.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
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Tacitus BI Antoninianus. AD 275-276.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Lugdunum mint; struck AD 276. 4th officina. IMP CL TACITVS AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / TEMPORVM FELICITAS, Felicitas standing facing, head to left, holding long caduceus with right hand and cornucopia with left; Δ in left field, star in right field. RIC V.1 65 (Gaul); MER-RIC 3325 (temporary). 4.65gr, 23mm, 7h.
Good Very Fine.
From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020). -
Otacilia Severa, Augusta AR Antoninianus. AD 244-249.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Rome mint; struck AD 246-248. M OTACIL SEVERA AVG, diademed and draped bust to right, set on crescent / CONCORDIA AVGG, Concordia seated to left, holding patera and double cornucopiae. RIC IV 125c (Philip I) corr. (date); RSC 4. 3.46gr, 23mm, 7h.
Good Very Fine.
Ex German art market, 2000s. Acquired from an EU collector living in London. From the collection of a Surrey, UK, gentleman. -
Quintillus BI Antoninianus. AD 270.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Rome mint. 12th officina. [IMP C M AVR CL QVI]NTILLVS AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed(?) bust to right / LAETIT[IA AVG], Laetitia standing to left, holding wreath and anchor set on globe; XII in right field. Cf. RIC V.1 22; cf. MER-RIC 1202 (temporary). 2.64gr, 21mm, 11h.
Good Very Fine.
From a private, UK, collection in the 1980s. Property of a London, UK, antiquarian.
