LOT 3118
Crispus, as Caesar BI Nummus. AD 316-326.
Treveri mint; struck AD 326. 2nd officina. FL IVL CRISPVS NOB CAES, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / PROVIDENTIAE CAESS, camp gate with no doors and two turrets; star above, STR(pellet in crescent) in exergue. RIC VII 477. Extremely Fine. Dark glossy patina.(3.20gr, 18mm, 11h.).
ProvenanceFrom the Killingholme Hoard, North Lincolnshire, found in 1993;
Ex Spink & Son, 26 February 2004;
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman, collector's ticket included.
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Gallienus BI Antoninianus. AD 253-268.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Rome mint; struck AD 265-267. GALLIENVS AVG, radiate head to right / SECVRIT PERPET, Securitas standing facing, head to left, legs crossed, leaning on short column and holding sceptre. RIC V.1 516 (Mediolanum, sole reign); MIR 591w; RSC 962. 4.44gr, 22mm, 12h.
Near Extremely Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Domitian AE As. AD 81-96.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Rome mint; struck AD 87. [IMP CAES DOMIT AVG GERM COS XIII] CENS PER P P, laureate head to right / [VIRTVTI] AVGVSTI, Virtus standing to right, foot on helmet, holding spear and parazonium; S C across fields. RIC II.1 550; BMCRE 404. 10.04gr, 28mm, 6h.
Fine. Edges having been tapped to create raised rims.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
Proto-contorniate is the modern term used to describe Roman Imperial and Provincial bronze coins of the first, second, and early third centuries with hammered-up edges. These raised edges on the rims probably occurred after these bronze issues no longer circulated and ceased to be part of the currency in general use. A common assumption is that proto-contorniates functioned as game counters since the rim created through hammering could protect the designs. Andreas Alföldi in Die Kontorniaten (Budapest, 1943) believed proto-contorniates to be forerunners of the contorniates of the fourth and fifth centuries. He argued that proto-contorniates were New Year's gifts and that the older coins were actually hammered in the fourth century before the contorniates proper came into being. -
Julia Domna AR Denarius. AD 193-211.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Rome mint; struck AD 196-211. IVLIA AVGVSTA, draped bust to right / SAECVLI FELICITAS, Isis, wearing polos, standing to right, resting left foot on prow, holding patera and infant Horus at breast, rudder leaning against altar behind. RIC IV 577 (Septimius); BMCRE 75 (Septimius and Caracalla); RSC 174. 2.37gr, 18mm, 6h.
Very Fine. Toned.
Ex Stocker collection, Kent, UK, 1955-early 2000s.
