LOT 3627
Marcus Aurelius AE Sestertius. Struck AD 171. Rome mint.
IMP • M • ANTONINVS AVG TR P XXV, laureate head to right / PRIMI DECENNALES COS III S C in five lines within wreath. RIC III 1006; MIR 18, 219-6/30; Banti 241. Near Extremely Fine.(29.63gr, 31mm, 11h.).
ProvenanceEx Leu Numismatik AG, Web Auction 26, 8 July 2023, lot 4494 (since professionally cleaned and re-worked).
From the collection of a Surrey, UK, gentleman.
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Probus BI Antoninianus. AD 281. Rome mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
4th officina. PROBVS P F AVG, radiate and mantled bust to left, holding eagle-tipped sceptre / ROMAE AETER, Roma seated facing in hexastyle temple, holding Victory and sceptre; R(thunderbolt)Δ in exergue. RIC V.2 187; probuscoins.fr 239. 4.17gr, 22mm, 12h.
Extremely Fine.
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, private collection. -
Constantius II, as Caesar, BI Nummus. Circa AD 325. London mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
1st officina. FLA CONSTANTIVS NOB C, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / PROVIDENTIAE CAESS, camp gate with no doors, two turrets, star above; PLON in exergue. RIC VII 297; C&T 10.02.005. 3.01gr, 20mm, 6h.
Extremely Fine. Rare with this obverse legend.
Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd, Auction XIII, 23 March 2017, lot 1295 (corr. Constantine II). Property of a London antiquarian. -
Valens BI 17mm. AD 364-367. Antioch mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
3rd officina. D N VALENS P F AVG, pearl-diademed, draped and cuirassed bust to right / GLORIA ROMANORVN(sic), emperor walking to right, head to left, holding labarum and dragging captive; ANTΓ in exergue. RIC IX 10b. 3.20gr, 17mm, 11h.
Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
