LOT 3313
Nero AE Sestertius. Circa AD 65. Lugdunum mint.
NERO • CLAVD • CAESAR • AVG [GER P M TR P IMP P P ?], laureate head to left, globe at point of bust / Emperor on horseback to right, holding spear; behind him, soldier on horseback to right, holding vexillum; S C across fields, DECVRSIO in exergue. Cf. RIC I 437. Near Very Fine.(25.90gr, 34mm, 6h.).
ProvenanceAcquired 1970s-1996.
Property of a North American collector.
London collection, 2016.
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Constantius I, as Caesar BI Nummus. Struck AD 297-299. Cyzicus mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
FL VAL CONSTANTIVS NOB CAES, laureate head to right / GENIO AVGG ET CAESARVM NN, Genius, wearing modius on head, standing to left, holding cornucopia and patera from which liquid flows; KB(?) in exergue. RIC VI 11a. 10.47gr, 28mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
Private collection, acquired 1980–1985. -
Romano-British Imitation of Magnentius AE Centenionalis. Struck circa AD 351-353. Following possibly Lugdunum mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
[...]IVS P F AVG, bareheaded, draped and cuirassed bust to right; A to left / VICT DD [...], two Victories facing one another, holding between them wreath inscribed VOT V MVLT X in four lines; mintmark in exergue. For prototype cf. RIC VIII 151; SCBC 750. 3.39gr, 16mm, 11h.
Good Very Fine.
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, private collection.
During the 4th century, the urban life in Britain was in serious decline, and the supplies of currency from the Empire were temporarily disrupted, so the local imitations of Constantius II and the usurper Magnentius became necessary to cover the deficit. -
Titus AR Denarius. AD 80. Rome mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
IMP TITVS CAES VESPASIAN AVG P M, laureate head to right / TR P IX IMP XV COS VIII P P, pulvinar (throne) of Jupiter and Juno, with horizontal winged thunderbolt above. RIC II.1 119; BMCRE 51-54; RSC 316. 2.86gr, 17mm, 6h.
Near Very Fine.
Found Gloucestershire, UK. Acquired from the early 1980s. From the private collection of a late Gloucestershire, UK, gentleman; thence by descent.
