LOT 3112
Hadrian AR Denarius. AD 117-138.
Rome mint; struck circa AD 126-127. HADRIANVS AVGVSTVS, laureate head to right, with slight drapery on left shoulder / COS III, Annona (or Abundantia) seated to left, holding reaping hook in right hand and cornucopia in left; at feet to left, modius with grain ears. RIC II.3 854; Cohen 379; BMCRE 385. Good Very Fine.(2.60gr, 19mm, 6h.).
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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Aureolus, Romano-Gallic Usurper BI Antoninianus. AD 268-269.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Mediolanum mint. Struck in the name of Postumus, mid AD 268. 3rd officina. IMP POSTV[MVS AVG], radiate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / VIRTVS • EQVIT •, Mars walking to right, holding spear and shield; T in exergue. RIC V.2 (Postumus) 388; RIC V.4 450; AGK (Postumus) 111b; RSC (Postumus) 441. 2.06gr, 20mm, 11h.
Good Very Fine.
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Philip I AE Sestertius. AD 244-249.
Estimate: £200 - 300 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £100
Rome mint; struck AD 248. 6th officina. 9th emission. Ludi Saeculares (Secular Games) issue, commemorating the 1000th anniversary of Rome. IMP M IVL PHILIPPVS AVG, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust to right / SAECVLARES AVGG, antelope walking to left. RIC IV 161; Banti 50. 16.31gr, 27mm, 1h.
Good Very Fine. Light brown patina. '5786' on reverse.
Ex private Hertfordshire, UK, collection, and David Miller, Hemel Hempstead, London, UK, 1990 (collector's tickets included).
Ludi Saeculares were secular games, and they were celebrated only once in a century, because it was scarcely given to a man to see them more than once in his life (in particular, the Romans reckoned a saeculum as the longest possible length of human life, either 100 or 110 years in length). -
Julian II BI Double Maiorina. AD 360-363.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
Arelate mint. 3rd officina. D N FL CL IVLI-ANVS P F AVG, pearl-diademed, draped and cuirassed bust to right / SECVRITAS REI PVB, bull standing to right, two stars above; before, eagle standing to right on wreath holding wreath in beak; TCONST in exergue. RIC VIII 318; LRBC 468. 8.91gr, 29mm, 6h.
Good Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
