LOT 3375
Marcus Aurelius AR Denarius AD 175-176. Rome mint.
M ANTONINVS AVG GERM SARM, laureate head to right / TR P XXX IMP VIII COS III, Aequitas standing to left, holding scales and cornucopia. RIC III 359 var. (rev. legend); BMCRE 672; RSC 929c. Good Very Fine.(3.20gr, 19mm, 6h.).
ProvenanceFrom the private collection of a Canadian gentleman living in Essex, UK, formed since the 1920s-circa 1990.
Property of an Essex lady until the the late 1990s; thence by descent.
From the private collection of an Essex gentleman since the late 1990s.
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Claudius I AE As. Circa AD 41-50. Contemporary imitation.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £98
Bare head to left / Minerva standing to right, hurling javelin and holding rounded shield; S C across lower fields. For prototype, cf. RIC I 100, Cohen 83, BMCRE 149. 5.25gr, 23mm, 6h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a Buckinghamshire, UK, collector established from the earlier 1960s. -
Domitian AE Sestertius. AD 82. Rome mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £468
IMP CAES DIVI VESP F DOMITIAN AVG P M, laureate head to right / TR P COS VIII DES VIIII P P, Minerva standing facing, head to left, holding spear and with hand on hip; S C across fields. RIC II.1 105; Cohen 581; BN 285; BMCRE 274. 24.04gr, 33mm, 6h.
Good Very Fine. Smoothed and tooled.
From the collection of a Surrey, UK, gentleman. -
Antoninus Pius AE Sestertius. AD 145-146. Rome mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £98
ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P TR P, laureate head to right / [COS] III[I?], Salus standing to left, feeding snake coiled round altar and holding rudder upright; S C across fields. Cf. RIC 761. 21.94gr, 30mm, 11h.
Very Fine. Repatinated.
Acquired 1970s-1996. Property of a North American collector. London collection, 2016.
