LOT 3248
Roman Imperial, Terracotta Forger's Casting Mould. 4th century AD.
CONCORDIA AVG, Constantinopolis seated facing, head to left, holding Victory on globe and sceptre / GLORIA EXERCITVS, two soldiers facing one another, holding reversed spear and resting hand on shield; between them, two standards. Condition as seen. Casting mould sharing two reverse types.(5.53gr, 28mm, 9h.).
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
FootnotesWith 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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Constantine I BI Nummus. AD 335.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £31
Antioch mint. CONSTANTINVS MAX AVG, rosette-diademed, draped and cuirassed bust to right / GLORIA EXERCITVS, two soldiers standing facing, each holding spear, two standards between; SMANΔ in exergue. RIC VII 86. 2.02gr, 18mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
Private collection, acquired 1980–1985. -
Romano-British Imitation of Magnentius BI Double Centenionalis. AD 350-353.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £286
Following Ambianum mint; struck circa AD 351-353. D N MAGNENTIVS P F AVG, bare-headed, draped and cuirassed bust to right / SALVS DD NN AVG ET CAES, large Chi-Rho; A ധ (Alpha Omega) across fields, AMB in exergue. For prototype cf. RIC VIII 34; SCBC 612; see also Carson and J.P.C. Kent, 'A Hoard of Roman Fourth-Century Bronze Coins from Heslington, Yorkshire' in NC Vol. 11 (1971), p. 210. 11.40gr, 29mm, 6h.
Good Very Fine.
Found Yorkshire, UK. From the private collection of Robin Sykes, Yorkshire, UK, formed since the late 1990s. -
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Group of Fifteen [15] Roman Imperial AR Denarii. 3rd century BC-3rd century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £286
Including an Alexander III AR Drachm and an interesting imitation of a Denarius of Septimius Severus. 46gr total.
Condition as seen.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
