LOT 2844
Nero AE As. AD 54-68.
Lugdunum mint; struck AD 58-64. NERO CLAVD CAESAR AVG GER P M TR P IMP P P, laureate head to left, globe at point of bust / VICTORIA AVGVSTI, Victory walking to left, holding wreath and palm frond; II in exergue. RIC I 410; C. 346; BMCRE 350. Very Fine.(13.66gr, 29mm, 4h.).
ProvenanceFrom a private, UK, collection in the 1980s.
Property of a London, UK antiquarian.
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Aelius, Caesar AE As. AD 136-138.
Estimate: £200 - 300 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £100
Rome mint; struck under Hadrian, AD 137. L • AELIVS CAESAR, bare head to right / TR POT COS II, Pannonia standing facing, head left, holding vexillum upright on ground, gathering up dress with right hand; S C beneath PANN-O across fields. RIC II.3 2661 (PANNONIA). 14.16gr, 21mm, 6h.
Very Fine.
Ex UK private collection. -
Crispus, as Caesar BI Nummus. AD 316-326.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Treveri mint; struck AD 326. FL IVL CRISPVS NOB CAES, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to left / PROVIDENTIAE CAESS, camp gate with no doors and two turrets; star above, STR (pellet in crescent) in exergue. RIC VII 477. 2.98gr, 19mm, 1h.
Good Very Fine.
From a private Barnsley, UK, family collection. -
Aureolus, Romano-Gallic Usurper, BI Antoninianus. AD 268-269.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
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. 2.85gr, 19mm, 6h.
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.
