LOT 3641
Severus Alexander AE As. AD 231-235. Rome mint.
IMP ALEXANDER PIVS AVG, laureate head to right, with slight drapery over far shoulder / PROVIDENTIA AVG, Providentia standing facing, head to left, holding grain ears over modius and cornucopia; S C across fields. RIC 644. Good Very Fine.(10.78gr, 25mm, 6h.).
ProvenanceAcquired on the UK art market.
Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.
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Roman Imperial, Diocletian Terracotta Forger's Casting Mould. 3rd century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £85
Incuse of IMP C C VAL DIOCLETIANVS P F AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / Incuse of RESTITVT [...], female figure, turreted and on the left, standing to right, presenting wreath to emperor, on the right, standing to left, extending his right hand and holding long sceptre in his left. For obverse cf. RIC V.2 323 (obverse of Antoninianus of Diocletian, Antioch). 3.70gr, 27mm, 2h.
Condition as seen.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Gaius (Caligula) AE Quadrans. AD 40-41. Rome mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
C CAESAR DIVI AVG PRO N AVG, pileus between S C / COS TERT PON M TR P IIII P P around R CC. RIC 52; Cohen 7; BMC 64. 2.74gr, 17mm, 7h.
Near Very Fine. Edge chipped.
London, UK, art market, 1980s. Private collection, London, UK. -
Probus BI Antoninianus. AD 281. Ticinum mint. 3rd officina.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
[IMP C] PROBVS AVG, radiate and mantled bust to left, holding eagle-tipped sceptre / SALVS AVG, Salus standing facing, head to right, feeding serpent; V to left, TXXI in exergue. RIC V.2 499 var. (star to right); probuscoins.fr 304. 3.58gr, 22mm, 12h.
Near Extremely Fine. Much of the original silvering remaining.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
