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LOT 2950
Severus Alexander AE Sestertius. AD 230. Rome mint.
IMP SEV ALEXANDER AVG, laureate bust to right, slight drapery on far shoulder / VICTORIA AVGVSTI, Victory standing facing, head to right, with foot on helmet, inscribing VOT X on shield set on trunk of palm tree; S C across fields. RIC IV 616; Cohen 567; BMCRE 643. Near Very Fine.(15.34gr, 28mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceAcquired on the UK art market.
Property of a London, UK, antiquarian.
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Gordian III AR Antoninianus. AD 243-244. Rome mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
IMP GORDIANVS PIVS FEL AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / SECVRITAS PERPETVA, Securitas standing facing, head to left, holding sceptre and resting left arm on column. RIC IV 153. 4.93gr, 21mm, 1h.
Very Fine.
Ex Dorchester Hoard. Ex BA Seaby Limited, circa 1975. -
Vespasian AR Denarius. AD 69-79.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £182
Ephesus mint; struck AD 71. IMP CAESAR VESPAS AVG COS III TR P P P, laureate head to right / CONCORDIA AVG, Ceres seated to left, on ornate high-backed chair, holding corn ears, poppy and cornucopia; EPHE (partially ligate) in exergue. RIC II.1 1428; RPC II 830; BMCRE 453; RSC 67. 3.41gr, 19mm, 6h.
Good Very Fine.
Ex German art market, 2000s. Acquired from an EU collector living in London. From the collection of a Surrey, UK, gentleman. -
Constantius I BI Nummus. AD 305. Antioch mint. 10th officina.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
IMP C FL V CONSTANTIVS P F AVG, laureate head to right / GENIO POPVLI ROMANI •, Genius standing to left, modius on head, naked but for chlamys over left shoulder, holding patera and cornucopia; I in right field, ANT in exergue. RIC VI 70a. 9.84gr, 28mm, 6h.
Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
