![Group of Two [2] Roman Imperial and Byzantine Coins.](https://timelineauctions.com/upload/images/items/236248.jpg "Group of Two [2] Roman Imperial and Byzantine Coins.")
LOT 3641
Group of Two [2] Roman Imperial and Byzantine Coins. 4th-6th century AD.
Various emperors. Condition as seen.(6.27gr total.).
ProvenanceUK private collection before 2000.
Acquired on the UK art market.
Private collection, London.
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Maximinus II BI Nummus. AD 310-313.
Estimate: £30 - 40 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £14
Antioch mint; struck AD 312. 1st officina. IMP C GAL VAL MAXIMINVS P F AVG, laureate head to right / SOLI INVICTO, Sol in long robe, standing facing, head to left, with hand raised and other holding head of Serapis; A in left field, star in right field, ANT in exergue. RIC VI 167b. 4.48gr, 21mm, 11h.
Near Very Fine.
Private collection, acquired 1980–1985. -
Roman Imperial, Terracotta Forger's Casting Mould. 4th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
CONCORDIA AVG, Constantinopolis seated facing, head to left, holding Victory on globe and sceptre / GLORIA EXERCITVS, two soldiers facing one another, holding reversed spear and resting hand on shield; between them, two standards. 5.53gr, 28mm, 9h.
Condition as seen. Casting mould sharing two reverse types.
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. -
![Group of Thirty-Eight [38] Roman and Byzantine Coins.](https://timelineauctions.com/upload/images/items/small/234196-s.jpg)
Group of Thirty-Eight [38] Roman and Byzantine Coins. 1st-7th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Various emperors. 120gr total.
Condition as seen.
From a private, UK, collection in the 1980s. Property of a London, UK, antiquarian.
