LOT 3201
Helena, Augusta BI Nummus. AD 324-328/30.
Rome mint. FL AELENA (sic) AVGVSTA, diademed and draped bust to right, wearing pearl necklace / SECVRITAS REI PVBLICE, Securitas, veiled, standing facing, head to left, holding branch in her right hand; uncertain mintmark below. Cf. RIC 291. Extremely Fine. Sharp details.(2.88gr, 19mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceFrom a private, UK, collection in the 1980s.
Property of a London, UK, antiquarian.
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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). -
Aureolus, Romano-Gallic Usurper BI Antoninianus. AD 268-269.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Mediolanum mint; struck AD 268. In the name and types of Postumus. IMP C POSTVMVS P F AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / SALV[S AVG], Aesculapius standing facing, head to left, leaning on serpent-entwined staff; P in exergue. RIC V.2 382. 1.81gr, 19mm, 11h.
Good Very Fine.
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Romano-British Imitation of Constantius II BI Centenionalis. AD 337-361.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Following Lugdunum mint; struck circa AD 353-354. D N CONSTAN-TIVS P F AVG, pearl-diademed, draped and cuirassed bust to right / [FEL TEMP] REPARATIO, soldier standing to left, spearing fallen horseman, round shield below; CSLG in exergue. For prototype cf. RIC VIII 189 (GSLG); 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. 215 (mintmark for Constantius Gallus). 2.40gr, 18mm, 6h.
Good 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 temporarily disrupted, so the local imitations of Constantius II and the usurper Magnentius became necessary to cover the deficit.
