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LOT 3501
Probus BI Antoninianus. Struck AD 280. Ticinum mint. 5th officina.
VIRTVS PROBI AVG, radiate, helmeted and cuirassed bust to left, holding spear and shield / PAX AVG, Pax standing facing, head to left, holding olive branch and transverse sceptre; T in left field, VXXI in exergue. RIC V.2 517; Pink VI/1, p. 66. Good Very Fine.(3.74gr, 21mm, 6h.).
ProvenanceProperty of a North London, UK, gentleman.
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Septimius Severus AR Denarius. AD 207. Rome mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
SEVERVS PIVS AVG, laureate head to right / P M TR P [X]V COS III P P, Africa standing to right, wearing elephant headdress and holding fruits; to right, lion to right. RIC IV 207a; BMCRE 530 note; RSC 493b. 3.19gr, 19mm, 7h.
Very Fine.
Acquired 1970s-1996. Property of a North American collector. London collection, 2016. -
Sabina AR Denarius. AD 136. Rome mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
SABINA AVGVSTA, draped and diademed bust to right, wearing stephane / CONCORDIA AVG, Concordia standing to left, resting on column, holding patera and cornucopia. RIC II.3 2571; BMCRE 929-931 (Hadrian); RSC 3a. 3.71gr, 17mm, 6h.
Good Very Fine.
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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Uncertain Emperor BI Antoninianus. 3rd century AD. Uncertain mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Incuse of reverse / SALVS AVG, Salus standing to left, feeding serpent rising from altar out of patera and holding sceptre(?). Cf. MER-RIC 184 (temporary) for rev. type. 2.32gr, 18mm.
Very Fine.
From a private, UK, collection in the 1980s. Property of a London, UK, antiquarian.
