LOT 3555
Constantine I BI Nummus. AD 322-324. London mint. 1st officina.
CONSTANT-INVS AG, helmeted and cuirassed bust to left / BEAT TRA-NQLITAS, banded globe set on altar inscribed VOT•IS XX in three lines; three stars above, F B in fields; PLON below. RIC VII 246; C&T 9.06.016. Near Very Fine.(2.58gr, 19mm, 5h.).
ProvenanceFrom the private collection of a Suffolk, UK, gentleman, early 2000s.
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Tetricus II, as Caesar BI Antoninianus. Struck AD 273. Treveri mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
C PIV ESV TETRICVS CAES, radiate and draped bust to right / SPES AVGG, Spes walking to left, holding flower and raising robe. RIC V.2 270. 2.65gr, 19mm, 6h.
Good Very Fine.
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Vespasian AR Denarius. Struck AD 70. Ephesus mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £293
IMP CAESAR VESPAS AVG COS II TR P P P, laureate head to right / AVG above monogram of ΦΥ; all within oak wreath. RIC II.1 1414 (R3); RPC II 822; RSC -. NGC graded XF 4/5 - 4/5 (#8465280-008).
From the collection of a Surrey, UK, gentleman. -
Romano-British Imitation of Constantius II BI Centenionalis. AD 337-361.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Following Ludgunum mint; struck circa AD 353-354. D N CONSTAN-TIVS P F AVG, pearl-diademed, draped and cuirassed bust to right / FEL TEMP REPARATIO, soldier standing to left, spearing fallen horseman, round shield below; CPLG in exergue. For prototype cf. RIC VIII 189; SCBC 750; see also Carson and J.P.C. Kent, 'A Hoard of Roman Fourth-Century Bronze Coins from Heslington, Yorkshire' in NC Vol. 11 (1971), p. 215. 2.54gr, 18mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
Found Yorkshire, UK. From the private collection of Robin Sykes, Yorkshire, UK, formed since the late 1990s.
During the 4th century, the urban life in Britain was in serious decline, and the supplies of currency from the Empire were temporarily disrupted, so the local imitations of Constantius II and the usurper Magnentius became necessary to cover the deficit.
