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LOT 3545
Galerius, as Caesar, BI Nummus. AD 295-296. Cyzicus mint. 1st officina.
GAL VAL MAXIMIANVS NOB CAES, laureate head to right / GENIO AVGG ET CAESARVM NN, Genius, wearing modius on head, standing to left, holding patera and cornucopia, from which liquor flows; KA in exergue. RIC VI 9b. Good Very Fine.(10.43gr, 28mm, 6h.).
ProvenanceAcquired 1970s-1996.
Property of a North American collector.
London collection, 2016.
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Trajan AR Denarius. AD 114-117. Rome mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £91
IMP TRAIANO OPTIMO AVG GER DAC P M TR P, laureate and draped bust to right / COS VI P P S P Q R, Genius standing to left, holding patera and corn-ears. RIC II 303; BMCRE 519; Woytek 488v; RSC 105. 3.20gr, 20mm, 7h.
Near Very Fine.
Found Gloucestershire, UK. Acquired from the early 1980s. From the private collection of a late Gloucestershire, UK, gentleman; thence by descent. -
Caracalla AR Denarius. AD 210-213. Rome mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
ANTONINVS PIVS AVG BRIT, laureate head to right / MARTI PROPVGNATORI, Mars advancing to left, holding spear and trophy. RIC IV 223; BMCRE 87; RSC 150. 2.52gr, 17mm, 6h.
Near Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market since the early 2000s. Property of a Lincolnshire gentleman, thence by descent. -
Herennia Etruscilla AR Antoninianus. AD 249-251. Rome mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
HER ETRVSCILLA AVG, diademed and draped bust to right, set on crescent / PVDICITIA AVG, Pudicitia seated to left, drawing veil from face and holding sceptre. RIC IV 59b (Decius); RSC 19. 4.09gr, 21mm, 12h.
Near Extremely 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.
