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Details
LOT 3449
Magnentius BI Centenionalis. AD 350-353.
Lugdunum mint. 1st officina. D N MAGNENTIVS P F AVG, bare-headed, draped and cuirassed bust to right; A behind / VICTORIAE DD NN AVG ET CAE, two Victories standing facing one another, together holding shield inscribed VOT V MVLT X in four lines; SV below, RPLG• in exergue. RIC VIII 128. Near Extremely Fine.(5.67gr, 20mm, 6h.).
Provenance
Purchased from Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co. KG, September 2010;
From an old UK collection;
From the collection of a London antiquarian.
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