LOT 3133
Septimius Severus AR Denarius. AD 193-211.
Rome mint; struck AD 202-210. SEVERVS PIVS AVG, laureate head to right / INDVLGENTIA AVGG, the Dea Caelestis, holding thunderbolt and sceptre, riding on lion to right over waters gushing from rock; IN CARTH in exergue. RIC IV 266; BMCRE 335-8 (Septimius & Caracalla); RSC 222. Near Extremely Fine. Beautifully toned.(3.42gr, 18mm, 1h.).
ProvenanceEx Michael Trenerry, Truro, UK, 1980s.
Private North Country, UK, collection.
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Galerius BI Nummus. AD 305-311.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Heraclea mint; struck AD 308-309. 1st officina. IMP C GAL VAL MAXIMIANVS P F AVG, laureate head to right / GENIO IMPERATORIS, Genius, wearing modius on head, standing to left, holding cornucopia and patera; •HTA• in exergue. RIC VI 37a. 6.71gr, 26mm, 6h.
Near Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK market before 2000. Property of a London, UK, gentleman. -
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. -
Vespasian AE Dupondius. AD 69-79.
Estimate: £200 - 300 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £111
Rome mint; struck AD 74. IMP CAES VESP AVG P M T P COS V GENS, radiate head to right / FELICITAS PVBLICA, Felicitas standing to left, holding caduceus with right hand and cornucopia with left; S C across fields. RIC II.1 715; BMCRE 696. 12.28gr, 26mm, 5h.
Near Extremely Fine. Some tooling.
From UK private collection.
