LOT 3448
Magnentius BI Centenionalis. AD 350-353.
Treveri mint; struck AD 350. 1st officina. IM CAE MAGNENTIVS AVG, bare-headed, draped and cuirassed bust to right / FELICITAS REIPVBLICE, emperor in military dress standing facing, head to left, holding standard with Chi-Ro and Victory on globe, crowning emperor with wreath; A in right field, TRP(crescent) in exergue. RIC VIII 266; Bastien 28; LRBC 51. Near Extremely Fine.(6.29gr, 22mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceFrom the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020).
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Constantine I BI Nummus. AD 307/310-337.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Aquileia mint; struck AD 321. 1st officina. CONSTANTINVS AVG, laureate head to right / D N CONSTANTINI MAX AVG, laurel wreath with jewel at apex enclosing VOT • XX in three lines; •AQP• in exergue. RIC VII 85. 3.30gr, 19mm, 5h.
Near Extremely Fine.
Ex M.D. collection, Brussels. From the collection of a London antiquarian, formed since the 1980s. -
Carausius, Romano-British Emperor BI Antoninianus. AD 286-293.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
'C' (Camulodunum?) mint. IMP CARAVSIVS AVG, radiate and draped bust to right / APOLLINI CONS, griffin walking to left; MSC in exergue. RIC V 196. 3.32gr, 21mm, 7h.
Fair. Very rare.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Hadrian AE Sestertius. AD 117-138.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £2,080
Rome mint; struck AD 129-130. HADRIANVS AVGVSTVS, bare-headed and draped(?) bust to left / IVSTITIA AVG COS III P P, Justitia seated to left on throne, holding patera in her right hand and long sceptre in her left; S C in exergue. Cf. RIC II, part 3 1228. 23.94gr, 35mm, 12h.
Extremely Fine. Charming brown patina with green highlights. Very Rare.
Ex Arts Classica, Auction XV, 1930, lot 1552. Ex Stack's Bowers Galleries (& Ponterio), Sale 174 - N.Y.I.N.C. Auction Ebert I & Sess. B, 11 January 2013, lot 5213.
