LOT 3520
Diocletian BI Nummus. AD 297-298. Heraclea mint. 4th officina.
IMP C C VAL DIOCLETIANVS P F AVG, laureate head to right / GENIO POPVLI ROMANI, Genius, wearing modius on head, standing to left, holding cornucopia and patera, from which liquor flows; HTΔ in exergue. RIC VI 19a. Good Very Fine. Original silvering almost fully intact.(11.14gr, 27mm, 6h.).
ProvenanceAcquired 1970s-1996.
Property of a North American collector.
London collection, 2016.
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Postumus, Romano-Gallic Emperor AR Antoninianus. AD 260-269. Uncertain mint. Contemporary imitation.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust to right / PROVIDENTIA AVG, Providentia standing facing, head to left, holding globe and sceptre. Cf. RIC V.2 80 (Lugdunum) and 323 (Colonia Agrippinensis). 2.52gr, 21mm, 6h.
Near Very Fine.
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Trajan AE Sestertius. AD 114-117. Rome mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £442
IMP CAES NER TRAIANO OPTIMO AVG GER DAC PARTHICO P M TR P COS VI P P, laureate and draped bust to right / ARMENIA ET MESOPOTAMIA IN POTESTATEM P R REDACTAE, Emperor standing to right, holding spear and parazonium; on ground, reclining figures of Armenia, Euphrates and Tigris, the former reclining to left in centre, head turned facing, the latter two to left and right, facing each other; S C across fields. RIC II 642 corr. (obv. legend); Woytek 590v.2; BMCRE 1037. 25.24gr, 34mm, 7h.
Very Fine.
Acquired 1970s-1996. Property of a North American collector. London collection, 2016. -
Divus Constantine I AE 16mm. AD 347-348. Alexandria mint. 1st officina.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
D V CONSTANTINVS P T AVGG, veiled head to right / Deified emperor standing to right; VN-MR across fields, SMALA in exergue. RIC VIII 32. 1.76gr, 16mm, 12h.
Near Extremely Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, gentleman.
