LOT 3184
Gordian III AR Antoninianus. AD 238-244.
Rome mint; struck late AD 240. IMP GORDIANVS PIVS FEL AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / IOVIS STATOR, Jupiter standing facing, head to right, holding thunderbolt and long sceptre. RIC IV 85; RSC 115. Good Very Fine.(3.70gr, 22mm, 7h.).
ProvenanceEx German art market, 2000s.
Acquired from an EU collector living in London.
From the collection of a Surrey, UK, gentleman.
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Carinus, as Caesar BI Antoninianus. AD 282-283.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Ticinum mint; struck AD 282. 3rd officina. M AVR CARINVS NOB C, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / PRINCIPI IVVENTVT, prince standing to left, holding globe and spear, captive seated to left; TXXI in exergue. RIC V.2 182; Cohen 97. 3.94gr, 23mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Constantine I BI Nummus. AD 307/310-337.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Constantinople mint; struck AD 328. 3rd officina. Dafne coinage. CONSTANTI-NVS MAX AVG, rosette-diademed head to right, looking upwards / CONS[T]A[NTINIANA DAFNE], Victory seated to left on cippus, head to right, holding palm branch in each hand; trophy in front, at the foot of which captive kneeling to left, head to right, spurned by Victory; Γ in left field, CONS in exergue. RIC VII 32; LRBC 992. 3.25gr, 20mm, 11h.
Good Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Tetricus I, Romano-Gallic Emperor, BI Antoninianus. AD 271-274.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
[...]S P F AVG; incuse of reverse / HILARITAS AVGG, Hilaritas standing to left, holding long branch with right hand and cornucopia with left. Cf. RIC V.2 80; cf. RIC V.4 801. 2.36gr, 19mm.
Extremely Fine. Brockage of reverse.
From a private, UK, collection in the 1980s. Property of a London, UK, antiquarian.
Brockage errors are caused when an already minted coin sticks to the coin die and impresses onto another blank that hasn't been struck yet, pressing a mirror image of the other coin into the blank. Until the late 3rd century AD brockages showing the reverse are much less common since mint workers would be more likely to see the stuck coin in the anvil die.
