LOT 3403
Fausta, Augusta BI Nummus. AD 324-326.
Treveri mint; struck AD 325-326. 1st officina. FLAV MAX FAVSTA AVG, mantled bust to right / SPES REIP-VBLICAE, Spes standing facing, head to left, holding two infants in her arms; PTR(pellet in crescent) in exergue. RIC VII 484. Extremely Fine. Nice dark green patina.(3.19gr, 18mm, 6h.).
ProvenanceEx Coincraft, London, UK.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
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Julia Mamaea, Augusta AE Sestertius. AD 222-235.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
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 (S. Alexander); BMCRE 199 (S. Alexander). 19.29gr, 31mm, 1h.
Near Very Fine.
Ex Den of Antiquity, Cambridgeshire, UK. Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Maximian, as Senior Augustus BI Nummus. First reign, AD 305-307.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £104
Rome mint; struck circa 305. 3rd officina. D N MAXIMIANO FELICISS SEN AVG, laureate bust to right, wearing imperial mantle and holding olive branch in right hand and mappa in left / PROVIDENT DEOR QVIES AVGG, Providentia standing to right, extending her right hand to Quies, standing to left, holding branch in her right hand and long sceptre in her left; S F across field, RT in exergue. RIC VI 117b. 10.52gr, 27mm, 6h.
Good Very Fine.
Ex M.D. collection, Brussels. From the collection of a London antiquarian, formed since the 1980s. -
Gallienus BI Antoninianus. AD 253-268.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Rome mint. GALLIENVS AVG, radiate head to right / VICTORIA AET, Victory advancing to left, holding wreath and palm frond; Z (or B?) to left. Cf. RIC V.1 297. 2.61gr, 22mm,1h.
Good Very Fine.
From a London, UK, specialist collection, 1990s.
