LOT 2976
Aurelian BI Antoninianus. Struck spring AD 274. Serdica mint.
6th emission. 3rd officina. IMP AVRELIANVS AVG, radiate and cuirassed bust to right / ORIENS AVG, Sol standing to left, raising right hand and holding globe with left, two captives seated to left and to right at feet; T in exergue. RIC V.1 279; MER-RIC 2650 (temporary). Mint State. Attractive old cabinet tone with light gold iridescence around the devices.(5.02gr, 23mm, 7h.).
ProvenanceEx Pecunem / Gitbud & Naumann, Auction 14, 2 March 2014, lot 796.
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Aurelian BI Antoninianus. Struck spring AD 274. Serdica mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £176
6th emission. 3rd officina. IMP AVRELIANVS AVG, radiate and cuirassed bust to right / ORIENS AVG, Sol standing to left, raising right hand and holding globe with left, two captives seated to left and to right at feet; T in exergue. RIC V.1 279; MER-RIC 2650 (temporary). 5.02gr, 23mm, 7h.
Mint State. Attractive old cabinet tone with light gold iridescence around the devices.
Ex Pecunem / Gitbud & Naumann, Auction 14, 2 March 2014, lot 796. -
Augustus Fourrée Denarius. 15 BC. Lugdunum mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £111
AVGVSTVS DIVI • F, bare head to right / Augustus, bareheaded and togate, seated to left on curule chair set on dais, extending his right hand toward two soldiers, each carrying parazonia and presenting laurel branches in their right hands; IMP • X in exergue. For prototype: RIC 165a; Lyon 13; RSC 133; BMCRE 445-6 = BMCRR Gaul 157-8; BN 1366-9. 2.98gr, 19mm, 1h.
Near Very Fine.
Ex Lockdales, Suffolk, UK. From the private collection of an Essex, UK, lady. -
Allectus, Romano-British Emperor BI Quinarius. AD 295-296. London mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
IMP C ALLECTVS P F AVG, radiate and cuirassed bust to right / VIRT-VS AVG, galley to left, with Victory to left amid ships; QL in exergue. RIC V.2 58; Burnett 107; Webb 94. 1.52gr, 21mm, 7h.
Near Very Fine. Very rare.
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman.
