Details
LOT 3292
Maxentius BI Nummus. AD 307-312.
Aquileia mint; struck AD 307-310. 3rd officina. IMP MAXENTIVS P F AVG CONS II, laureate bust to right, wearing imperial mantle and holding eagle-tipped sceptre / CONSERV VRB SVAE, Roma seated facing, head to left, holding globe and sceptre, with shield by left side, in hexastyle temple; AQΓ in exergue. RIC VI 125; Cohen 32. Good Very Fine. Very rare.(5.32gr, 24mm, 5h). [No Reserve]
Provenance
Ex Naville Numismatics Ltd., Auction 89, 12 May 2024, lot 716 (since professionally cleaned);
From an old UK collection;
From the collection of a London antiquarian.
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