LOT 3757
Diocletian BI Antoninianus. AD 284-305. Antioch mint. 1st officina.
IMP C C VAL DIOCLETIANVS AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / CONCORDIA MILITVM, Diocletian standing to right, holding parazonium, and receiving Victory from Jupiter standing to left, holding sceptre; A between figures, XXI in exergue. RIC V.2 306. Good Very Fine.(3.65gr, 21mm, 1h.).
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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Nero Claudius Drusus AE Sestertius. Struck under Claudius, AD 42-43. Rome mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
NERO CLAVDIVS DRVSVS GERMANICVS IMP, bare head to left / TI CLAVDIVS CAESAR AVG P M TR P IMP P P S C, Claudius seated to left on curule chair, holding branch and resting hand on lap; around the chair are scattered arms (spears, shields, cuirass, and helmet). RIC I 109 (Claudius); BMC 208 (Claudius). 26.16gr, 33mm, 6h.
Good Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Severus Alexander AR Denarius. AD 223. Rome mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
IMP C M AVR SEV ALEXAND AVG, laureate and draped bust to right / PM TR P II COS P P, Pax standing to left, holding olive branch and sceptre. RIC IV 27; BMCRE 105; RSC 236. 2.86gr, 19mm, 1h.
Good Very Fine.
Property of a London, UK, private collector. -
Roman Imperial, Licinius II Terracotta Forger's Casting Mould. 4th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
Incuse of laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / Incuse of D N VAL LICIN LICINIVS NOB C, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right. For reverse cf. RIC VII 605 (obverse of Nummus of Licinius II, as Caesar, Nicomedia). 4.73gr, 27mm, 11h.
Condition as seen.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
