LOT 3538
Gaius (Caligula) AE Quadrans. AD 40-41. Rome mint.
C CAESAR DIVI AVG PRO N AVG, pileus between S C / COS TERT PON M TR P IIII P P around R CC. RIC 52; Cohen 7; BMC 64. Near Very Fine. Edge chipped.(2.74gr, 17mm, 7h.).
ProvenanceLondon, UK, art market, 1980s.
Private collection, London, UK.
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Aureolus, Romano-Gallic Usurper BI Antoninianus. Circa mid AD 268. Mediolanum mint. 1st officina.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £49
IMP POSTVMVS AVG, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust to right / FIDES • E[QVIT], Fides seated to left, holding patera and signum; P in exergue. RIC V.2 378 (Postumus). 2.14gr, 19mm, 6h.
Good Very Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Trajan AE Quadrans. Circa AD 112-114. Rome mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
IMP CAES TRAIAN AVG GERM, laureate bust of Hercules to right, wearing lion skin draped around his neck / Boar walking to right; S C in exergue. RIC 702; BMC 1062; Cohen 341; Woytek 602b. 2.64gr, 16mm, 6h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Philip II, as Caesar AR Antoninianus. Struck AD 246. Rome mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £195
M IVL PHILIPPVS CAES, radiate and draped bust to right / PRINCIPI IVVENT, Philip II in military dress standing to left, holding reversed spear with left hand and globe with right. RIC IV 218d var. (bust type); RSC 48 var. (same). 4.00gr, 24mm, 1h.
Extremely Fine. Beautiful toning.
Ex Pecunem / Gitbud & Naumann, Auction 14, 2 March 2014, lot 748.
