LOT 3886
Leo I AE 11mm. AD 457-474. Constantinople mint.
Diademed, draped and cuirassed bust to right / Lion crouching to left, head to right. Cf. RIC X, 673-4. Near Very Fine.(1.21gr, 11mm, 9h.).
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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Claudius AE Quadrans. AD 42. Rome mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
PON M TR P IMP P P COS II around large S C / TI CLAVDIVS CAESAR AVG around three-legged modius. RIC 90; BMCRE 182. 3.28gr, 18mm, 7h.
Very Fine.
London, UK, art market, 1980s. Private collection, London, UK. -
Postumus, Romano-Gallic Emperor AR Antoninianus. Struck AD 261. Treveri mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
IMP C POSTVMVS P F AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / LAETITIA AVG, galley to left. RIC V.2 73 (Lugdunum); RIC V.4 57; RSC 167a (Lugdunum). 1.80gr, 22mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Trajan AE Sestertius. AD 100. Rome mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £104
IMP CAES NERVA TRAIAN AVG GERM P M, laureate head to right / TR POT [COS] III P P, Pax seated to left, holding branch and sceptre; S C in exergue. RIC II 413; Cohen 624; BMCRE 731 note; Woytek 76a. 29.37gr, 34mm, 6h.
Near Very Fine.
Acquired 1970s-1996. Property of a North American collector. London collection, 2016.
