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LOT 3554
Constantine I, as Caesar, BI Nummus. AD 307. Rome mint. 4th officina.
CONSTANTINVS NOB CAES, laureate head to right / CONSERVATORES VRB SVAE, Roma seated facing, head to left, holding globe and sceptre, in hexastyle temple, plain pediment; R(star)Q in exergue. RIC VI 196. Near Extremely Fine.(5.81gr, 25mm, 6h.).
Provenance
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.
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