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LOT 3211
Group of Twenty [20] BI Roman Antoniniani. 3rd century AD.
Various emperors. Fine to Good Very Fine.(45.84gr total.). [20]
ProvenanceFrom a private collection formed since the 1940s.
From UK art market.
Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.
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Salonina, Augusta BI Antonianus. AD 254-268.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Mediolanum mint; struck AD 266. 2nd officina. SALON[INA AVG], diademed and draped bust to right, set on crescent / AVG [IN] PACE, Salonina seated to left, holding olive branch with right hand and transverse sceptre in left; MS in exergue. RIC V 58; MIR 36, 1374e; RSC 17. 2.69gr, 21mm, 11h.
Good Very Fine. Silvering almost fully intact. Flan crack at 6h.
From a London, UK, collection, 1990s. -
Aureolus, Romano-Gallic Usurper, BI Antoninianus. AD 268-269.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Mediolanum (Milan) mint; struck mid AD 268. 2nd officina. In the name of Postumus. IMP POSTVMVS AVG, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Postumus to right / CONCORD EQVIT, Concordia standing to left, holding patera with right hand and rudder with left; her right foot on prow of galley to left; S in exergue. RIC V.2 (Postumus) 373; RIC V.4 446; AGK (Postumus) 6a. 2.85gr, 19mm, 6h.
Very Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
Aureolus was an extraordinarily capable general who served under Valerian and Gallienus. He revolted against Gallienus in AD 267, who sieged him in the city of Mediolanum (Milan) where these coins were struck. -
Constantine I BI Nummus. AD 307/310-337.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Aquileia mint; struck AD 320. 1st officina. CONSTANTINVS AVG, helmetted and cuirassed bust to right / VIRTVS EXERCIT, standard inscribed VOT XX in two lines between two captives seated on the ground either side; S-F across fields, AQP in exergue. RIC VI 48. 2.89gr, 18mm, 1h.
Near Extremely Fine. Much original silvering remaining.
From a private, UK, collection.
