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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.).
ProvenancePurchased 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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Trebonianus Gallus AR Antoninianus. AD 251-253.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £27
Antioch mint. IMP C C VIB TREB GALLVS P F AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust to right; pellet beneath bust / PAX AVGVS, Pax standing facing, head to left, holding branch and transverse sceptre; [pellet?] in exergue. Cf. RIC IV 86. 3.43gr, 21mm, 5h.
Near Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market before 2000. Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman. -
Severus Alexander AR Denarius. AD 222-235.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Rome mint; struck AD 222. IMP C M AVR SEV ALEXAND AVG, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / P M TR P COS P P, Mars standing to left, holding olive-branch and spear. RIC IV 7d; BMCRE 28 var. (bust type); RSC 207 var. (same). 3.45g, 19mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
Acquired on the London art market in the late 1980s-1990s. From the family collection of an East London, UK, gentleman. -
Gallienus BI Antoninianus. AD 253-268.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Rome mint. 6th officina. GALLIENVS AVG, radiate bust to right / IOVIS STATOR, Jupiter standing facing, head to right, holding sceptre and thunderbolt; ς in left field. RIC V.1 216; RSC 388a. 3.41gr, 19mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman.
