LOT 3513
Diocletian BI Nummus. Circa AD 296-298. Aquileia mint. 1st officina.
IMP DIOCLETIANVS P F AVG, laureate head to right / GENIO POPVLI ROMANI, Genius standing to left, modius on head, holding patera and cornucopia; AQP in exergue. RIC VI 23a. Extremely Fine. Almost complete original silvering.(9.71gr, 28mm, 6h.).
ProvenanceAcquired 1970s-1996.
Property of a North American collector.
London collection, 2016.
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Hadrian AR Denarius. Struck AD 120-121. Rome mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
IMP CAESAR TRAIAN HADRIANVS AVG, laureate head to right / P M TR P COS III, Salus seated to left, feeding out of patera snake coiled around altar to left; SAL AV[G] in exergue. RIC II.3 374; BMCRE 314; RSC 1324. 2.96gr, 18mm, 6h.
Near Very Fine.
Found Gloucestershire, UK. -
Divus Antoninus Pius AR Denarius. After AD 161. Rome mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £91
DIVVS ANTONINVS, bare-headed bust to right, slight drapery on far shoulder / CONSECRATIO, pyre of four tiers, decorated with hangings and garlands, surmounted by quadriga. RIC III 438 (Aurelius); BMCRE 60-64 (Aurelius & Verus); RSC 164a. 3.10gr, 18mm, 6h.
Good 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. -
Group of Four [4] Carausius BI Antoniniani. AD 286-293.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Various types. 15.15gr total.
Condition as seen.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
