LOT 3391
Constantine I BI Nummus. AD 307/310-337.
Rome mint; struck AD 329-330. CONSTANTINVS MAX AVG, diademed, draped and cuirassed bust to right / DN CONSTANTINI MAX AVG, VOT XXX in two lines within wreath; RFP below. RIC VII 322. Good Very Fine.(3.30gr, 21mm, 11h.).
ProvenanceFrom a private, UK, collection in the 1980s.
Property of a London, UK, antiquarian.
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Hadrian AE Sestertius. AD 117-138.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £2,080
Rome mint; struck AD 129-130. HADRIANVS AVGVSTVS, bare-headed and draped(?) bust to left / IVSTITIA AVG COS III P P, Justitia seated to left on throne, holding patera in her right hand and long sceptre in her left; S C in exergue. Cf. RIC II, part 3 1228. 23.94gr, 35mm, 12h.
Extremely Fine. Charming brown patina with green highlights. Very Rare.
Ex Arts Classica, Auction XV, 1930, lot 1552. Ex Stack's Bowers Galleries (& Ponterio), Sale 174 - N.Y.I.N.C. Auction Ebert I & Sess. B, 11 January 2013, lot 5213. -
Philip II AR Antoninianus. AD 247-249.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Rome mint; struck AD 248. 3rd officina. Ludi Saeculares (Secular Games) issue, commemorating the 1000th anniversary of Rome. IMP PHILIPPVS AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / SAECVLARES AVGG, goat standing to left; III in exergue. RIC IV 224; RSC 72. 4.05gr, 22mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
Ex German art market, 2000s. Acquired from an EU collector living in London. From the collection of a Surrey, UK, gentleman. -
Geta as Caesar AE 'Limes Denarius'. AD 198-209.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Struck at the frontiers of the empire, based on an issue minted in Rome under Septimius Severus and Caracalla, AD 200-205. P SEPT GETA CAES PONT, young, bareheaded and draped bust to right / PRI-NC IV-VENTVTIS, Geta, in military dress, standing to left, holding baton and sceptre; trophy to right. For prototype: RIC IV 18 var. (branch instead of baton); RSC 157b. 2.56gr, 18mm, 12h.
Good Very Fine.
Acquired from the vendor's grandfather in the 1990s. Property of an Essex collector.
'Limes Denarii' (misnomer) are more or less faithful bronze copies of silver Denarii, minted on the fringes of the empire out of necessity. Perhaps they may be officially sanctioned issues for use in regions where political unrest made it hazardous to ship large amounts of silver. These low value issues could have served troops on the front and been redeemable for good coinage when they returned to the stable regions. Were they a form of military scrip meant to keep large quantities of precious metal from falling into enemy hands in the event of a defeat?
