LOT 3395
Constantine I BI Nummus. AD 307/310-337.
Antioch mint; struck AD 326-327. 1st officina. CONSTANTINVS AVG, laureate head to right / PROVIDENTIAE AVGG, camp gate with no door, two turrets, star above and pellet within doorway; SMANTA in exergue. RIC VII 71. Good Very Fine.(2.86gr, 19mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceEx M.D. collection, Brussels.
From the collection of a London antiquarian, formed since the 1980s.
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Diocletian BI Nummus. AD 284-305.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Treveri mint; struck AD 296-297. 3rd officina. IMP DIOCLETIANVS AVG, laureate head to right / GENIO POPV-LI ROMANI, Genius standing to left, modius on head, holding patera and cornucopia; C Γ across fields, TR in exergue. RIC VI 187a. 8.19gr, 26mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Hadrian AR Denarius. AD 117-138.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £85
Rome mint; struck circa late AD 120-121. IMP CAESAR TRAIAN HADRIANVS AVG, laureate and draped bust of Hadrian to right / P M TR P COS III / Libertas seated to left on throne, holding branch in her right hand and sceptre in her left; LIB PVB in exergue. RIC II.3 367; BMC 286; Cohen 903. 3.43gr, 19mm, 6h.
Very Fine.
From a private, UK, collection in the 1980s. Property of a London, UK, antiquarian. -
Gallienus BI Antoninianus. AD 253-268.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £143
Antioch mint; struck AD 264. GALLIENVS AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / P M TR P XII C VI P P, emperor on horseback to left, raising right hand and holding spear with left. RIC V -; Cohen 840; MIR 1621i. 3.21gr, 20mm, 12h.
Good Very Fine. Extremely rare type; only one other example on CoinArchives (Paul-Francis Jacquier 45, 1040; hammer: EUR 380).
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
