LOT 3516
Diocletian BI Nummus. AD 298-299. Thessalonica mint. 1st officina.
IMP C C VAL DIOCLETIANVS P F AVG, laureate head to right / GENIO POPVLI ROMANI, Genius standing to left, modius on head, naked but for chlamys over left shoulder, holding patera from which liquid flows, and cornucopia; TSA in exergue. RIC VI 19a. Good Very Fine.(11.95gr, 28mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceAcquired 1970s-1996.
Property of a North American collector.
London collection, 2016.
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Group of Four [4] Roman AE Coins. 1st-4th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Various emperors. 16.15gr total.
Condition as seen.
Found Gloucestershire, UK. Acquired from the early 1980s. From the private collection of a late Gloucestershire, UK, gentleman; thence by descent. -
Tetricus I, Romano-Gallic Emperor BI Antoninianus. AD 271-274. Possibly contemporary imitation.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Radiate bust to right / Pax standing facing, head to left, holding olive branch with right hand and sceptre with left. For prototype: cf. RIC V.2 100. 1.82gr, 18mm, 6h.
Very Fine.
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Maxentius BI Nummus. AD 310-311. Rome mint. 2nd officina.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
IMP C MAXENTIVS P F AVG, laureate head to right / CONSERV VRB SVAE, Roma seated to left, shield at side, holding globe and sceptre, in hexastyle temple; on each end of architrave, statues as acroteria; wreath in pediment; RES in exergue. RIC VI 258. 5.75gr, 24mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
From the private collection of a Canadian gentleman living in Essex, UK, formed since the 1920s-circa 1990. Property of an Essex lady until the the late 1990s; thence by descent. From the private collection of an Essex gentleman since the late 1990s.
