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LOT 3446
Magnentius BI Centenionalis. AD 350-353.
Ambianum mint; struck AD 351-352. D N MAGNEN-TIVS P F AVG, bare-headed, draped and cuirassed bust to right / [VICTORIAE DD NN] AVG ET CAE, two Victories facing each other, holding between them wreath inscribed VOT V MVLT X written in four lines; AMB(crescent) in exergue. RIC VIII 23. Near Very Fine.(3.45gr, 22mm, 8h.).
Provenance
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
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