LOT 3165
Tetricus I, Romano-Gallic Emperor BI Antoninianus. AD 271-274.
Treveri mint. IMP TETRICVS P F AVG, radiate and cuirassed(?) bust to right / LAETITIA AVG N, Laetitia standing to left, holding wreath and anchor. Cf. RIC 769. Good Very Fine. Double struck of obverse.(2.41gr, 20mm, 6h.).
ProvenanceFrom a private, UK, collection in the 1980s.
Property of a London, UK, antiquarian.
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LOT 3165
Tetricus I, Romano-Gallic Emperor BI Antoninianus.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
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Carausius, Romano-British Emperor BI Antoninianus. AD 286-293.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
Rotomagus (Rouen) mint. IMP C CARAVSIVS AVG, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust to right / TVT[...]VG, Tutela standing to left, holding cornucopia and sacrificing out of patera over lighted altar to left. Cf. RIC V.2 682. 3.20gr, 18mm, 6h.
Near Very Fine.
Found whilst searching with a metal detector near Eynsham, Oxfordshire, UK, before 1996. -
Roman Imperial, Terracotta Forger's Casting Mould. 4th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
D N VAL LICIN LICINIVS NOB C, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Licinius II to right / SOLI INVICTO COMITI, Sol standing to left, raising hand and holding globe; cross in left field, star in right field. 4.07gr, 27mm, 5h.
Condition as seen. Casting mould sharing types of different rulers.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
With an impression of the obverse on one side, and the reverse on the other, of the coin being counterfeited this ancient forger's casting mould would have been stacked with others, the molten metal being poured from above and allowed to cool. -
Augustus AE Sestertius. 27 BC-AD 14.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £182
Uncertain Asian mint; struck 25 BC. [AVGVSTVS], bare head to right / C A within laurel wreath. RIC I 501 (Pergamum); BMCRE 713 (Pergamum); CBN 956 (Pergamum); RPC I 2233 (Asia). 23.17gr, 35mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
