LOT 3127
Marcus Aurelius AE Sestertius. AD 161-180.
Rome mint; struck AD 161. IMP CAES M AVREL ANTONINVS AVG P M, laureate head to right, with slight drapery over shoulders / CONCORD AVGVSTOR TR P XV, Marcus Aurelius, togate, on the left, and Lucius Verus, togate, on the right, standing facing each other and clasping their right hands, each holding a scroll in his left hand; S C across fields, COS III in exergue. RIC III 795-797 var. (bust type); Cohen 45-47 var. (same). Very Fine. Tooled. Very rare bust type.(26.55gr, 33mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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Lucilla, Augusta AE As. AD 161-169.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £130
Rome mint; struck AD 161-164. LVCILLAE AVG ANTONINI AVG F, draped bust to right / CONCOR-DIA, Concordia standing facing, head to left, holding patera and double cornucopiae; S C across field. RIC III 1733 (Aurelius); Cohen 11. 9.51gr, 24mm, 12h.
Good Very Fine.
From a private, UK, collection in the 1980s. Property of a London, UK, antiquarian. -
Gratian AE 14mm. AD 367-383.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Antioch mint; struck AD 378-383. 1st officina. D N GRATIANVS P F AVG, pearl-diademed, draped and cuirassed bust to right / VOT XX MVLT XXX in four lines within wreath; ANTA below. RIC IX 58a. 1.06gr, 14mm, 10h.
Good Very Fine.
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Roman Imperial, Terracotta Forger's Casting Mould. 4th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Laureate head (Constantine I?) to right / D N VAL LICIN LICINIVS NOB C, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Licinius II to right. 4.65gr, 27mm, 9h.
Condition as seen. Casting mould sharing two obverse types.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
With an impression of the obverse on one side, and the reverse on the other, of the coin being counterfeited this ancient forger's casting mould would have been stacked with others, the molten metal being poured from above and allowed to cool.
