Details
LOT 3387
Constantine I BI Nummus. AD 307/310-337.
Nicomedia mint; struck AD 325-326. 5th officina. CONSTANTINVS AVG, laureate head to right / PROVIDENTIAE AVGG, camp gate with no doors and two turrets; star above, MNЄ in exergue. RIC VII 121. Near Extremely Fine.(3.04gr, 18mm, 12h.).
Provenance
From a private, UK, collection in the 1980s.
Property of a London, UK, antiquarian.
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