LOT 3458
Gallienus BI Antoninianus. AD 267-268. Rome mint.
GALLIENVS AVG, radiate head to right / NEPTVNO CONS AVG, hippocamp to right; N in exergue. RIC V.1 245 (sole reign); MIR 743b; RSC 667. Good Very Fine.(2.85gr, 21mm, 1h.).
ProvenanceProperty of a North London, UK, gentleman.
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Constantius I, as Caesar BI Nummus. Struck AD 297-299. Cyzicus mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
FL VAL CONSTANTIVS NOB CAES, laureate head to right / GENIO AVGG ET CAESARVM NN, Genius, wearing modius on head, standing to left, holding cornucopia and patera from which liquid flows; KB(?) in exergue. RIC VI 11a. 10.47gr, 28mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
Private collection, acquired 1980–1985. -
Jovian AR Siliqua. AD 363-364. Constantinople(?) mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £117
D N IOVIANVS P F AVG, pearl-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust to right / Laurel wreath enclosing VOT V MVL X in four lines; TCONST(?) in exergue. Cf. RIC IX 331. 1.66gr, 17mm, 11h.
Near Very Fine.
Found Gloucestershire, UK. Acquired from the early 1980s. From the private collection of a late Gloucestershire, UK, gentleman; thence by descent. -
Romano-British Imitation of Constantine I BI Nummus. AD 307/310-337.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £143
Following Arles mint; struck circa AD 330-335. CONSTANTI-NVS MAX AVG, rosette-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust to right. / GLOR-IA EXERC-ITVS, two soldiers holding spears and shields with two standards between them, with long rectangular banners; wreath in upper centre, dot in the middle and within wreath; SCONST in exergue. For prototype cf. RIC VII 370; see also Carson and J.P.C. Kent, 'A Hoard of Roman Fourth-Century Bronze Coins from Heslington, Yorkshire' in NC Vol. 11 (1971), p. 216. 2.04gr, 18mm, 5h.
Very Fine.
Found Yorkshire, UK. From the private collection of Robin Sykes, Yorkshire, UK, formed since the late 1990s.
