LOT 3535
Carausius, Romano-British Emperor BI Antoninianus. Struck circa AD 291-292. London mint.
IMP CARAVSIVS P F AVG, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust to right / PAX AVG, Pax standing to left, holding olive branch and vertical sceptre, B E across field; MLXXI in exergue. Cf. RIC V.2 98. Near Very Fine. Edge chipped.(3.12gr, 23mm, 6h.).
ProvenanceFound Gloucestershire, UK.
Acquired from the early 1980s.
From the private collection of a late Gloucestershire, UK, gentleman; thence by descent.
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Romano-British Imitation of Constans(?) AE Centenionalis. 4th century AD. Unofficial mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £21
[...]SDEM[...](sic), pearl-diademed and cuirassed bust to right / ECTI[...](sic), soldier standing to left, spearing fallen horseman; ICOI(sic) in exergue. 1.56gr, 16mm. 6h.
Near Very Fine.
Found Yorkshire, UK. From the private collection of Robin Sykes, Yorkshire, UK, formed since the late 1990s. -
Vespasian AR Denarius or Drachm of Caesarea, Cappadocia. AD 69-79.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Laureate head to right / Incuse of obverse. 2.91gr, 17mm, 12h.
Good Fine. Brockage of obverse issue.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, gentleman. -
Trajan AR Denarius. Struck AD 106-107. Rome mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £85
IMP TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P COS V P P, laureate bust to right, slight drapery on far shoulder / S P Q R OPTIMO PRINCIPI, Abundantia standing to left, holding corn-ears over modius on ground on left, and cornucopia; prow to right below. RIC II 166; BMCRE 169; RSC 467a. 3.23gr, 18mm, 7h.
Good Very Fine.
Found Gloucestershire, UK.
