LOT 3061
Maximian BI Antoninianus. First reign, AD 286-305.
Lugdunum mint. 1st officina. IMP MAXIMIANVS AVG, radiate, helmetted and cuirassed bust to right / PAX AVGG, Minerva standing facing, head to left, holding olive branch with right hand and sceptre and shield with left; (star) A in exergue. RIC V 404 var. (mintmark). Near Extremely Fine. Some original silvering remaining. Apparently unrecorded mintmark.(4.26gr, 24mm, 1h.).
ProvenanceProperty of a North London, UK, gentleman.
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Group of Ten [10] BI Roman Antoniniani. 3rd century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Various emperors. 29.20gr total.
Very Fine to Good Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market before 2000. Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman. -
Aureolus, Romano-Gallic Usurper, BI Antoninianus. AD 268-269.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Mediolanum (Milan) mint; struck mid AD 268. 2nd officina. In the name of Postumus. IMP POSTVMVS AVG, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Postumus to right / CONCORD EQVIT, Concordia standing to left, holding patera with right hand and rudder with left; her right foot on prow of galley to left; S in exergue. RIC V.2 (Postumus) 373; RIC V.4 446; AGK (Postumus) 6a. 3.03gr, 20mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
Aureolus was an extraordinarily capable general who served under Valerian and Gallienus. He revolted against Gallienus in AD 267, who sieged him in the city of Mediolanum (Milan) where these coins were struck. -
Domitian AE Sestertius. AD 88-89.
Estimate: £60 - 80 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £30
Rome. IMP CAES DOMIT AVG GERM COS XIII CENS PER P P, laureate head to right / IOVI VICTORI, Jupiter seated to left, holding Victory and sceptre; S C in exergue. RIC II.1 633; C. 313; BN 436; BMCRE 406. 28.76gr, 34mm, 7h.
Near Very Fine. Tooled.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
