Details
LOT 3558
Romano-British Imitation of Constantine I BI Nummus. AD 272-337. Following Lugdunum mint.
[...]-TiNVS AVG, laureate head to right / BEATA TRIIИOVILLITIS, altar inscribed VOTIS XX in three lines and surmounted by globe, three stars above; C R across fields, P⊥CI below. For prototype cf. RIC VII 131. Very Fine. Very interesting and rare imitative issue.(1.89gr, 18mm, 6h.).
Provenance
Found Essex.
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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