LOT 3166
Tetricus I, Romano-Gallic Emperor BI Antoninianus. AD 271-274.
Uncertain mint. [...] AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / Incuse of obverse. Good Very Fine. Brockage of obverse.(2.22gr, 16mm.).
ProvenanceFrom a private, UK, collection in the 1980s.
Property of a London, UK, antiquarian.
Brockage errors are caused when an already minted coin sticks to the coin die and impresses onto another blank that hasn't been struck yet, pressing a mirror image of the other coin into the blank.
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Crispus, as Caesar BI Nummus. AD 320.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £22
Aquileia mint. CRISPVS NOB CAES, laureate and cuirassed bust to left / VIRTVS EXERCIT, standard inscribed VOT X with captive seated on ground to either side; S F across fields, AQT in exergue. RIC VII 41. 3.43gr, 19mm, 11h.
Near Extremely Fine.
From a private, UK, collection in the 1980s. Property of a London, UK, antiquarian. -
Romano-British Imitation of Constantinian Family AE 12mm. 4th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Bust to right / Soldier standing to left, spearing fallen horseman(?). 1.56gr, 12mm, 4h.
Near Very Fine.
Found Yorkshire, UK. From the private collection of Robin Sykes, Yorkshire, UK, formed since the late 1990s. -
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Magnentius BI Double Centenionalis. AD 350-353.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £130
Ambianum mint. D N MAGNEN-TIVS P F AVG, bare-headed, draped and cuirassed bust to right / SALVS DD NN AVG ET CAES, large Chi-Rho; A ω across fields, AMB in exergue. RIC VIII 34. 8.89gr, 25mm, 6h.
Very Fine.
Ex Compton Dundon hoard.
The Compton Dundon Hoard consisted of 564 Roman Nummi, a large proportion of which were issues of the usurper Magnentius and Decentius, issued AD 350-353.
