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LOT 3643
Group of Thirty One [31] Roman Imperial Coins. 1st-4th century AD.
Various emperors. Condition as seen.(83gr total.).
ProvenanceFound Yorkshire, UK.
From the private collection of Robin Sykes, Yorkshire, UK, formed since the late 1990s.
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Diocletian BI Nummus. AD 284-305.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £85
Lugdunum mint; struck AD 307. 1st officina. D N DIOCLETIANO P F S AVG, laureate bust to right, wearing imperial mantle and holding olive branch and mappa / QVIES AVGVSTORVM, Quies standing facing, head to left, holding branch and sceptre; N in right field; PLG in exergue. RIC VI 216; Cohen 430. 9.95gr, 28mm, 12h.
Good Very Fine.
From a private, UK, collection in the 1980s. Property of a London, UK, antiquarian. -
Antoninus Pius AE Sestertius. AD 138-161.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,170
Rome mint. Struck AD 143-144. British Victory issue. ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P TR P COS III, laureate head to right / IMPERA-T-OR II, Victory flying to right, holding trophy in both hands; S C across field. RIC III 717a. 28.61gr, 32mm, 11h.
Near Extremely Fine. Dark green patina with earthen highlights.
Ex David Miller collection, Hertfordshire, UK, 1980s.
This coin was issued to mark the suppression of the British uprising in AD 143 by the Roman governor of Britannia, Q. Lollius Urbicus, which gave rise to the construction of the Antonine Wall, between the Firth of Clyde and the Firth of Forth. -
Roman Imperial, Terracotta Forger's Casting Mould. 4th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
D N VAL LICIN LICINIVS NOB C, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Licinius II to right / SOLI INVICTO COMITI, Sol standing to left, raising hand and holding globe; cross in left field, star in right field. 4.07gr, 27mm, 5h.
Condition as seen. Casting mould sharing types of different rulers.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
With an impression of the obverse on one side, and the reverse on the other, of the coin being counterfeited this ancient forger's casting mould would have been stacked with others, the molten metal being poured from above and allowed to cool.
