LOT 3103
Domitian AR Denarius. AD 81-96.
Rome mint; struck AD 90-91. IMP CAES DOMIT AVG GERM P M TR P X, laureate head to right / IMP XXI COS XV CENS P P P, Minerva advancing to right, brandishing spear and holding shield. RIC II.1 719; BMCRE 176; RSC 265. Very Fine.(3.21gr, 19mm, 7h.).
ProvenanceFrom a private Suffolk, UK, collection.
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Hanniballianus, Rex Regum AE 16mm. AD 335-337.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Constantinople mint. Struck AD 336-337. 6th officina. FL HANIBALLIANO REGI, bare-headed, draped and cuirassed bust to right / SECVRITAS PVBLICA, Euphrates seated to right on ground, leaning on sceptre, with urn at his side and reed in background; CONSS in exergue. RIC VII 147; LRBC 1034. 1.28gr, 16mm, 7h.
Near Very Fine. Rare.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
Flavius Claudius Hanniballianus was a nephew of Constantine I the Great, and brother of Delmatius. He was called Nobilissimus by his uncle, who appointed him prefect of Cappadocia and Armenia, which provinces he governed with the title of King, AD 335 until he was killed by soldiers of Constantius II, AD 337. -
Antoninus Pius AE As. AD 138-161.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £416
Rome mint; struck AD 140-144. ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P TR P COS III, laureate head to right / IMPERA-TOR II, Victory advancing to left, holding shield inscribed BRI-TAN; S C across lower fields. RIC III 732; Cohen 442. 11.49gr, 28mm, 12h.
Very Fine. Beautiful dark cypress-green patina.
From a private, UK, collection in the 1980s. Property of a London, UK, antiquarian.
Antoninus Pius received his second imperial acclamation, as recorded in this coin's reverse legend (IMPERATOR II), for the victory by his governor in Britannia, Q. Lollius Urbicus, over the Brigantes. It was Urbicus who also constructed the Antonine Wall in Scotland between the Firth of Forth and the Firth of Clyde, which was to be the northernmost frontier barrier of the Roman Empire. -
Julia Mamaea AE Sestertius. AD 222-235.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Rome mint; struck AD 224. IVLIA MAMAEA AVGVSTA, diademed and draped bust to right / VENVS FELIX, Venus seated to left, holding statuette and sceptre; S C in exergue. RIC IV 701 (Alexander); BMCRE 199 (Alexander). 16.81gr, 29mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
Found Nottinghamshire, UK.
