LOT 3587
Constantius II, as Caesar, BI Nummus. AD 329-330. Alexandria mint. 2nd officina.
FL IVL CONSTANTIVS NOB C, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to left / PROVIDENTIAE CAESS, camp gate with eight rows, no doors and two turrets; star above, wreath in left field, II in right field; SMAL below. RIC VII 52. Near Extremely Fine. Much original silvering remaining. Extremely rare variant.(3.10gr, 19mm, 6h.).
ProvenanceAcquired 1970s-1996.
Property of a North American collector.
London collection, 2016.
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Trajan AR Denarius. AD 114-117. Rome mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £91
IMP TRAIANO OPTIMO AVG GER DAC P M TR P, laureate and draped bust to right / COS VI P P S P Q R, Genius standing to left, holding patera and corn-ears. RIC II 303; BMCRE 519; Woytek 488v; RSC 105. 3.20gr, 20mm, 7h.
Near Very Fine.
Found Gloucestershire, UK. Acquired from the early 1980s. From the private collection of a late Gloucestershire, UK, gentleman; thence by descent. -
Philip II AR Antoninianus. AD 246-248. Rome mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
IMP PHILIPPVS AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed(?) bust to right / SAECVLARES AVGG, goat standing to left; III in exergue. RIC IV 224; RSC 72. 4.36gr, 22mm, 6h.
Near Very Fine.
Acquired 1970s-1996. Property of a North American collector. London collection, 2016. -
Aelia Flacilla BI 24mm. AD 383-386. Constantinople mint. 2nd officina.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
AEL FLACILLA AVG, draped bust to right, wearing elaborate headdress / SALVS REI PVBLICAE, Victory seated to right, inscribing a Chi-Rho on shield set on column, CONB in exergue. RIC IX 81. 4.54gr, 24mm, 6h.
Good Very Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, gentleman.
