LOT 3416
Maximian BI Antoninianus. First reign, AD 286-305.
Ticinum mint; struck AD 290. IMP C M A VAL MAXIMIANVS AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / HERCVLI CONSERVAT, Hercules standing to left, nude, right hand on club, left holding lion skin and bow; TXXIT in exergue. RIC V 548. Near Extremely Fine.(3.65gr, 22mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceProperty of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
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Constantius II, as Caesar AE 17mm. AD 324-337.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £44
Antioch mint, 6th officina. Struck under Constatine I, AD 324-325. Pearl-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust to left / CONSTAN-TIVS CAESAR in three lines; star above; SMANTS • below. RIC VII 60 corr. (bust type). 2.35gr, 17mm, 5h.
Very Fine.
From the collection of a London antiquarian, formed since the 1980s. -
Maximian BI Nummus. First reign, AD 286-305.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Carthage mint; struck AD 297-298. 8th officina. IMP MAXIMIANVS P F AVG, laureate head to right / FELIX A-D-VENT AVGG NN, Africa standing facing, head to left, wearing elephant skin headdress and holding signum and tusk; at feet to left, lion with captured bull; H in left field, PKS in exergue. RIC V 23b. 10.64gr, 27mm, 6h.
Good Very Fine.
Ex Coincraft, London, UK. Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Diocletian BI Nummus. AD 284-305.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £43
Alexandria mint; struck AD 301. 5th officina. IMP C DIOCLETIANVS P F AVG, laureate head to right / GENIO POPVLI ROMANI, Genius, wearing modius on head, standing to left, holding cornucopia and patera, from which liquid flows; XX in left field, Є over I in right field, ALE in exergue. RIC VI 32a. 10.29gr, 26mm, 5h.
Very Fine.
From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020).
