LOT 3138
Julia Maesa, Augusta AR Denarius. AD 218-224/5.
Rome mint; struck AD 218-222. IVLIA MAESA AVG, draped bust to right / IVNO, Juno, veiled, standing facing, head to left, holding patera and sceptre. RIC IV 254 (Elagabalus); BMCRE 68 (same); RSC 16. Very Fine.(3.30gr, 19mm, 6h.).
ProvenanceAcquired in the mid 1980s-1990s.
Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent.
Private collection, since the late 1990s.
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Roman Imperial, Terracotta Forger's Casting Mould. 4th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Laureate head (Constantine I?) to right / D N VAL LICIN LICINIVS NOB C, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Licinius II to right. 4.65gr, 27mm, 9h.
Condition as seen. Casting mould sharing two obverse 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. -
Trajan AE Dupondius. AD 98-117.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £143
Rome mint; struck AD 116-117. IMP CAES NER TRAIANO OPTIMO AVG GER DAC P M THICO P M TR P COS VI P P (sic), radiate and draped bust to right / SENATVS POPVLVSQVE [ROMANVS], emperor standing facing, head to left, between two trophies; S C in exergue. RIC II 676 var. (obverse legend); BMCRE 1052-4 var. (same); Woytek 586v var. (same). 14.12gr, 26mm, 6h.
Good Very Fine. Lightly smoothed and tooled, possibly resulting in variant in obverse legend.
Ex German art market, 2000s. Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd, E-Sale 111, 24 August 2023, lot 821 (company's ticket included). Acquired from an EU collector living in London. From the collection of a Surrey, UK, gentleman. -
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Group of Fifteen [15] Roman Imperial AR Denarii. 3rd century BC-3rd century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £286
Including an Alexander III AR Drachm and an interesting imitation of a Denarius of Septimius Severus. 46gr total.
Condition as seen.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
