LOT 3784
Constantine I BI Nummus. AD 307/10-337. Contemporary imitation.
CONSTATNVS[...], laureate head to right / CAESARVM NOSTͶON around wreath containing VOT • X in two lines; (inverted crescent)(star)AB below. Good Very Fine.(2.73gr, 18mm, 11h.).
ProvenanceFrom an early 20th century collection.
Acquired on the UK art market, early 2000s.
Property of a London, UK, antiquarian.
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Philip II, as Caesar AR Antoninianus. Struck AD 246. Rome mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £195
M IVL PHILIPPVS CAES, radiate and draped bust to right / PRINCIPI IVVENT, Philip II in military dress standing to left, holding reversed spear with left hand and globe with right. RIC IV 218d var. (bust type); RSC 48 var. (same). 4.00gr, 24mm, 1h.
Extremely Fine. Beautiful toning.
Ex Pecunem / Gitbud & Naumann, Auction 14, 2 March 2014, lot 748. -
Valens BI Nummus. AD 364-378.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
D N VALEN-S P F AVG, pearl-diademed, draped and cuirassed bust to right / SECVRITAS REIPVBLICAE, Victory advancing to left, holding wreath in her right hand and palm frond in her left, star to left; mintmark in exergue. 1.90gr, 17mm, 7h.
Good Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Tiberius Fourrée Denarius. AD 36-37. Lugdunum mint. Tribute Penny type.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
TI CAESAR DIVI AVG F AVGVSTVS, laureate head to right / PONTIF MAXIM, Livia, as Pax, seated to right on chair with ornamented legs, holding inverted spear and branch; on singular exergual line. For prototype: RIC I 28 corr. (ornamented legs); Lyon 146; RSC 16b. 2.96gr, 18mm, 10h.
Near Very Fine.
From a 19th century collection. Acquired on the UK art market in the early 2000s. Property of a London, UK, antiquarian. Accompanied by a handwritten envelope.
