Details
LOT 3551
Severus II BI Nummus. AD 306-307. Heraclea mint. 3rd officina.
IMP C FLA VAL SEVERVS P F AVG, laureate head to right / GENIO POPVLI ROMANI, Genius standing facing, modius on head to left, holding cornucopia and patera from which liquid flows; HTΓ in exergue. RIC VI 30. Near Extremely Fine.(9.08gr, 28mm, 12h.).
Provenance
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.
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