LOT 3556
Constantine I BI Nummus. AD 327-329. Heraclea mint. 3rd officina.
CONSTANTINVS AVG, plain-diademed head to right / D N CONSTANTINI MAX AVG, laurel wreath enclosing VOT • XXX, written in three lines; •SMHΓ in exergue. RIC VII 90. Good Very Fine.(3.31gr, 20mm, 6h.).
ProvenanceAcquired 1970s-1996.
Property of a North American collector.
London collection, 2016.
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Aureolus, Romano-Gallic Usurper BI Antoninianus. Struck in the name and types of Postumus, AD 268. Mediolanum mint. 1st officina.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
IMP C POSTVMVS • P • F • AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / FID[ES EQVIT], Fides seated to left, holding patera and standard; P in exergue. RIC V.2 377; RIC V.4 454; Elmer 615; AGK 18b. 2.56gr, 18mm, 6h.
Good Very Fine.
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, private collection. -
Sabina AR Denarius. AD 130-133. Rome mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
SABINA AVGVSTA HADRIANI AVG P P, draped bust to right, wearing stephane / CONCORDIA AVG, Concordia seated to left, holding patera and resting arm on statuette of Spes; cornucopia under throne. RIC II.3 2501; BMCRE 895-900 (Hadrian); RSC 12. 3.21gr, 18mm, 7h.
Very Fine.
Found Gloucestershire, UK. -
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Claudius I AE As. Circa AD 41-50. Contemporary imitation.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £98
Bare head to left / Minerva standing to right, hurling javelin and holding rounded shield; S C across lower fields. For prototype, cf. RIC I 100, Cohen 83, BMCRE 149. 5.25gr, 23mm, 6h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a Buckinghamshire, UK, collector established from the earlier 1960s.
