LOT 3726
Group of Sixty-Three [63] Late Roman Imperial AE Coins. 3rd-4th century AD.
Various emperors. Condition as seen.(149gr total.).
ProvenanceAcquired 1970s-1996.
Property of a North American collector.
London collection, 2016.
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LOT 3726
Group of Sixty-Three [63] Late Roman Imperial AE Coins.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £130
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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. -
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. -
Romano-British Imitation of Constantius II BI Centenionalis. AD 337-361.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Following uncertain mint. D N ƆONSTAN-TIV[...], pearl-diademed, draped and cuirassed bust to right / [...] PP-PΛPΛTI[...], soldier standing to left, spearing fallen horseman; uncertain mintmark in exergue. SCBC 750; 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. 221. 1.48gr, 17mm, 1h.
Very Fine.
Found Yorkshire, UK. From the private collection of Robin Sykes, Yorkshire, UK, formed since the late 1990s.
During the 4th century, the urban life in Britain was in serious decline, and the supplies of currency from the Empire were temporarily disrupted, so the local imitations of Constantius II and the usurper Magnentius became necessary to cover the deficit.
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