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LOT 3552
Maxentius BI Nummus. AD 310-311. Rome mint. 2nd officina.
IMP C MAXENTIVS P F AVG, laureate head to right / CONSERV VRB SVAE, Roma seated to left, shield at side, holding globe and sceptre, in hexastyle temple; on each end of architrave, statues as acroteria; wreath in pediment; RES in exergue. RIC VI 258. Very Fine.(5.75gr, 24mm, 12h.).
Provenance
From 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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