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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Victorinus, Romano-Gallic Emperor BI Antoninianus. AD 269-271.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Colonia Agrippinensis mint; struck mid-late AD 270. IMP C VICTORINVS P F AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust to right, seen from front / PIETAS AVG, Pietas standing to left, holding box of perfumes and sacrificing over altar to left. RIC V 57; AGK 18a. 2.64gr, 18mm, 6h.
Very Fine.
From a private, UK, collection in the 1980s. Property of a London, UK, antiquarian. -
Constantius II, as Caesar AE 18mm. AD 324-337.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Antioch mint, 6th officina. Struck AD 324-325. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust to left / CONSTAN-TIVS CAESAR in three lines; star above; SMANTS • below. RIC VII 60; LRBC 1327. 2.59gr, 18mm, 5h.
Good Very Fine.
From the collection of a London antiquarian, formed since the 1980s. -
Domitian AE Quadrans. AD 81-96.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £143
Rome mint; struck AD 84-85. Rhino standing to left / IMP DOMIT AVG GERM around S•C. RIC II.2 250; Cohen 676; BMCRE 498. 2.15gr, 16mm, 8h.
Near Very Fine.
From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020).
