LOT 3757
Decentius, as Caesar, BI Centenionalis. AD 351. Treveri mint.
2nd officina. D N DECENTIVS NOB CAES, bare-headed and cuirassed bust to right / VICTORIAE DD NN AVG ET CAE, two Victories standing facing each other, holding shield inscribed VOT V MVLT X in three lines above column; TRS in exergue. RIC VIII 308. Very Fine.(5.15gr, 21mm, 6h.).
ProvenanceAcquired on the UK art market.
Property of a London, UK, antiquarian.
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Quintillus BI Antoninianus. AD 270. Rome mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
IMP C M AVR CL QVINTILLVS [AVG], radiate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / LAET[ITIA AVG], Laetitia standing to left, holding wreath and anchor; XII in exergue. RIC V.1 22; MER-RIC 1207 (temporary). 3.05gr, 21mm, 6h.
Very Fine.
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, private collection. -
Marcus Aurelius AE Dupondius. AD 161-162. Rome mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
IMP CAES M AVREL ANTONINVS AVG P M, radiate and cuirassed bust to right / CONCORD AVGVSTOR TR P XVI, Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus standing with clasped hands; S C across fields, COS III in exergue. RIC III 829; Cohen 59. 13.82gr, 26mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market. Property of a London, UK, antiquarian. -
Romano-British Imitation of Constantius II BI Centenionalis. AD 337-361. Following uncertain mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
[...]VƧ P F AVG, pearl-diademed, draped and cuirassed bust to right / [FE]L TEMP RE[PA]RATIO, soldier standing to left, spearing fallen horseman, round shield below; uncertain mintmark in exergue. 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. 221. 2.22gr, 16mm, 5h.
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 temporarily disrupted, so the local imitations of Constantius II and the usurper Magnentius became necessary to cover the deficit.
