LOT 3199
City Commemorative BI Nummus. Struck under Constantine I, AD 330.
Rome mint. 5th officina. CONSTANTI-NOPOLIS, laureate and helmeted bust of Constantinopolis to left, wearing imperial mantle and holding sceptre / Victory standing to left on prow, holding transverse sceptre and resting hand on shield; RFЄ in exergue. RIC VII 332. Near Extremely Fine.(2.24gr, 19mm, 6h.).
ProvenanceProperty of a North London, UK, gentleman.
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Tetricus I, Romano-Gallic Emperor BI Antoninianus. AD 271-274.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £10
Uncertain mint. [...]CVS P F A[...], radiate bust to right / Incuse of obverse. 1.91gr, 16mm.
Good Very Fine. Brockage of obverse.
From a private, UK, collection in the 1980s. Property of a London, UK, antiquarian.
Brockage errors are caused when an already minted coin sticks to the coin die and impresses onto another blank that hasn't been struck yet, pressing a mirror image of the other coin into the blank. -
Galeria Valeria BI Nummus. AD 293-311.
Estimate: £30 - 40 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £14
Cyzicus mint; struck circa AD 309-310. 4th officina. GAL VAL-ERIA AVG, diademed and draped bust to right / VENERI V-ICTRICI, Venus standing to left, holding apple and drapery; Δ and star across fields, MKV in exergue. RIC VI 58. 5.96gr, 26mm, 6h.
Near Very Fine.
Private collection, acquired 1980–1985. -
Roman Imperial, Terracotta Forger's Casting Mould. 4th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
CONCORDIA AVG, Constantinopolis seated facing, head to left, holding Victory on globe and sceptre / GLORIA EXERCITVS, two soldiers facing one another, holding reversed spear and resting hand on shield; between them, two standards. 5.53gr, 28mm, 9h.
Condition as seen. Casting mould sharing two reverse types.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
With an impression of the obverse on one side, and the reverse on the other, of the coin being counterfeited this ancient forger's casting mould would have been stacked with others, the molten metal being poured from above and allowed to cool.
