Details
LOT 3249
Roman Imperial, Terracotta Forger's Casting Mould. 4th century AD.
D N VALENTINI-ANVS P F AVG, pearl-diademed, draped and cuirassed bust of Valentinian II to right / [SOLI INVI-]CTO COMITI, Sol standing to left, raising hand and holding globe; C S across fields. Condition as seen. Casting mould sharing types of different rulers.(4.57gr, 28mm, 2h.).
Provenance
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
Footnotes
With an impression of the obverse on one side, and the reverse on the other, of the coin being counterfeited this ancient forger's casting mould would have been stacked with others, the molten metal being poured from above and allowed to cool.
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