LOT 3594
Romano-British Imitation of Magnentius AE Centenionalis. Struck circa AD 351-353. Following possibly Lugdunum mint.
[...]IVS P F AVG, bareheaded, draped and cuirassed bust to right; A to left / VICT DD [...], two Victories facing one another, holding between them wreath inscribed VOT V MVLT X in four lines; mintmark in exergue. For prototype cf. RIC VIII 151; SCBC 750. Good Very Fine.(3.39gr, 16mm, 11h.).
ProvenanceFrom a Cambridgeshire, UK, private collection.
FootnotesDuring the 4th century, the urban life in Britain was in serious decline, and the supplies of currency from the Empire were temporarily disrupted, so the local imitations of Constantius II and the usurper Magnentius became necessary to cover the deficit.
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LOT 3594
Romano-British Imitation of Magnentius AE Centenionalis.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
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Roman Imperial Barbarous Imitation AE 10mm. Circa 4th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Bust to right / Soldier advancing to left, spearing fallen horseman. 1.14gr, 10mm.
Very Fine.
Found Gloucestershire, UK. -
Divus Antoninus Pius AR Denarius. After AD 161. Rome mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £91
DIVVS ANTONINVS, bare-headed bust to right, slight drapery on far shoulder / CONSECRATIO, pyre of four tiers, decorated with hangings and garlands, surmounted by quadriga. RIC III 438 (Aurelius); BMCRE 60-64 (Aurelius & Verus); RSC 164a. 3.10gr, 18mm, 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. -
Probus BI Antoninianus. AD 276-282. Siscia mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
IMP C M AVR PROBVS P F AVG, radiate bust to left, wearing imperial mantle and holding eagle-tipped sceptre / ADVENTVS PROBI AVG, Emperor on horseback, riding to left, holding sceptre and raising right hand, captive before the horse; XXIA in exergue. RIC V.2 632. 4.00gr, 22mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
Acquired 1970s-1996. Property of a North American collector. London collection, 2016.
