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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Group of Fifty [50] Late Roman Imperial AE Coins. 3rd-4th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £130
Various emperors. 96.13gr total.
Condition as seen.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Sabina AR Denarius. AD 136. Rome mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
SABINA AVGVSTA, draped and diademed bust to right, wearing stephane / CONCORDIA AVG, Concordia standing to left, resting on column, holding patera and cornucopia. RIC II.3 2571; BMCRE 929-931 (Hadrian); RSC 3a. 3.71gr, 17mm, 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. -
Maximian BI Antoninianus. AD 290-291. Lugdunum mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
IMP MAXIMIANVS AVG, radiate bust to left, wearing imperial mantle, holding sceptre surmounted by eagle / IOVI AVGG, Jupiter standing to left, holding Victory on globe and sceptre, eagle at foot; A in exergue. RIC V.2 384. 3.78gr, 21mm, 12h.
Good Very Fine.
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman.
