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LOT 3311
Claudius I AE As. Circa AD 41-50. Contemporary imitation.
Bare head to left / Minerva standing to right, hurling javelin and holding rounded shield; S C across lower fields. For prototype, cf. RIC I 100, Cohen 83, BMCRE 149. Near Very Fine.(5.25gr, 23mm, 6h.).
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a Buckinghamshire, UK, collector established from the earlier 1960s.
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Probus BI Antoninianus. AD 276-282. Siscia mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
IMP C PROBVS P F AVG, radiate and cuirassed bust to left, holding spear over shoulder / PROVIDENT AVG, Providentia standing facing, head left, holding globe and transverse sceptre; S in right field, XXI in exergue. Cf. RIC V.2 720. 3.98gr, 23mm, 6h.
Good Very Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, gentleman. -
Romano-British Imitation of Magnentius BI Double Centenionalis. AD 350-353. Following Treveri mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
MAGͶͶ-[...], bareheaded, draped and cuirassed bust to right / ƧVL[...], large Chi-Rho; A ധ (Alpha Omega) across fields, TRE in exergue. See Carson and J.P.C. Kent, 'A Hoard of Roman Fourth-Century Bronze Coins from Heslington, Yorkshire' in NC Vol. 11 (1971). 7.01gr, 24mm, 8h.
Near Very Fine. Very rare imitative issue.
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, private collection. -
Claudius II Gothicus BI Antoninianus. Struck September AD 268-end 269. Rome mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
IMP C CLAVDIVS AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / SPES PVBLICA, Spes standing to left, holding flower and raising robe. RIC V.1 102; RIC V online 212; Cohen 281. 4.24gr, 21mm, 12h.
Good Very Fine.
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman.
