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LOT 569

Sold for (Inc. bp): £3,450

ROMAN THE FOUR EMPERORS PLAQUE
(Copper-alloy, 13.3 grams, 46.9 mm.).

Mid-3rd century AD. A bronze plaque bearing the impression of the Tetrarchs with wreaths and surrounding text, displayed as two pairs facing towards the centre.

PROVENANCE:
Found Salisbury, Wiltshire, 1998.

FOOTNOTES:
The four figures depicted are probably joint emperors Pupienus, Balbinus and Gordian III and, on the left, Sabinia Tranquillina, the wife of Gordian. All these issued coins in their own right in the middle third of the 3rd century.

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