LOT 3508
Carinus BI Antoninianus. AD 283. Ticinum mint.
IMP CARINVS P F AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / FELICIT PVBLICA, Felicitas standing to left, leaning on column and holding caduceus; QXXI in exergue. RIC V.2 295. Near Very Fine.(2.98gr, 23mm, 11h.).
ProvenanceAcquired 1970s-1996.
Property of a North American collector.
London collection, 2016.
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Herennia Etruscilla AR Antoninianus. AD 249-251. Rome mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
HER ETRVSCILLA AVG, diademed and draped bust to right, set on crescent / PVDICITIA AVG, Pudicitia standing facing, head to left, drawing veil and holding transverse sceptre. RIC IV 58b (Decius); RSC 17. 4.29gr, 22mm, 7h.
Very Fine.
Found Essex. From the private collection of a Canadian gentleman living in Essex, UK, formed since the 1920s-circa 1990. Property of an Essex lady until the the late 1990s; thence by descent. From the private collection of an Essex gentleman since the late 1990s. -
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. -
Romano-British Imitation of Magnentius AE Centenionalis. Struck circa AD 351-353. Following possibly Lugdunum mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
[...]IVS P F AVG, bareheaded, draped and cuirassed bust to right; A to left / VICT DD [...], two Victories facing one another, holding between them wreath inscribed VOT V MVLT X in four lines; mintmark in exergue. For prototype cf. RIC VIII 151; SCBC 750. 3.39gr, 16mm, 11h.
Good Very Fine.
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, private collection.
During the 4th century, the urban life in Britain was in serious decline, and the supplies of currency from the Empire were temporarily disrupted, so the local imitations of Constantius II and the usurper Magnentius became necessary to cover the deficit.
