LOT 3550
Galeria Valeria BI Nummus. Struck circa AD 309-310. Cyzicus mint. 4th officina.
GAL VAL-ERIA AVG, diademed and draped bust to right / VENERI V-ICTRICI, Venus standing to left, holding apple and drapery; Δ and star across fields, MKV in exergue. RIC VI 58. Near Very Fine.(5.96gr, 26mm, 6h.).
ProvenancePrivate collection, acquired 1980–1985.
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Caracalla Fourrée Denarius. AD 197-217. Laodicea mint. Barbarous issue.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
ANTONINVS PIVS AVG BRIT, laureate head to right / P M TR P XVIII COS IIII P P, Aesculapius standing facing, holding serpent-wreathed wand; to his feet to right, globe. RIC IV 327; BMCRE p.384, 157 / pl. 64, 10. 2.47gr, 17mm, 6h.
Near Very Fine. Very rare.
Acquired on the UK art market since the early 2000s. Property of a Lincolnshire gentleman, thence by descent. -
Augustus AR Denarius. 16 BC. Rome mint. C. Antistius Vetus, moneyer.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £208
[C ANTISTIVS] VETVS III VIR, draped bust of Venus to right, wearing stephane / COS [I]MP CAESAR • AVGV XI in three lines, simpulum and lituus above; tripod and patera below. RIC I 367; BMCRE 98-99; RSC 348. 3.77gr, 17mm, 11h.
Near Very Fine. Bankers' marks on both sides.
Found Gloucestershire, UK. -
Philip I AE Sestertius. AD 246. Rome mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
IMP PHILIPPVS AVG, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right, seen from rear / [ANN]ONA AVGG, Annona standing facing, head to left, holding grain ears over modius in her right hand and cornucopia in her left; S C across field. RIC IV 168d; Cohen 29. 18.22gr, 30mm, 6h.
Near 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.
