LOT 3110
Trajan AE Dupondius. AD 98-117.
Rome mint; struck AD 116-117. IMP CAES NER TRAIANO OPTIMO AVG GER DAC P M THICO P M TR P COS VI P P (sic), radiate and draped bust to right / SENATVS POPVLVSQVE [ROMANVS], emperor standing facing, head to left, between two trophies; S C in exergue. RIC II 676 var. (obverse legend); BMCRE 1052-4 var. (same); Woytek 586v var. (same). Good Very Fine. Lightly smoothed and tooled, possibly resulting in variant in obverse legend.(14.12gr, 26mm, 6h.).
ProvenanceEx German art market, 2000s.
Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd, E-Sale 111, 24 August 2023, lot 821 (company's ticket included).
Acquired from an EU collector living in London.
From the collection of a Surrey, UK, gentleman.
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Domitian AE Sestertius. AD 81-96.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,040
Rome mint. Struck AD 88-89. IMP CAES DOMIT AVG GERM COS XIIII CENS PER P P, laureate head to right / IOVI VICTORI, Jupiter seated left on throne, holding Victory and sceptre; in exergue, S C. RIC II.1 633; Cohen 313; BMC 406; CBN 436. NGC graded Ch VF 5/5 - 3/5, Fine Style, marks (#8221849-004).
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Trajan AR Denarius. AD 98-117.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Rome mint; struck February-autumn AD 98. IMP CAES NERVA TRAIAN AVG GERM, laureate head to right / PONT MAX TR POT COS II, Pax standing facing, head to left, holding olive branch in her right hand and cornucopia in her left. RIC II 17; Cohen 292; BMCRE 14; Woytek 24a. 2.88gr, 18mm, 7h.
Very Fine.
Found Yorkshire, UK. From the private collection of Robin Sykes, Yorkshire, UK, formed since the late 1990s. -
Tetricus I, Romano-Gallic Emperor BI Antoninianus. AD 271-274.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £91
Uncertain mint. [...] AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / Incuse of obverse. 2.22gr, 16mm.
Good Very Fine. Brockage of obverse.
From 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.
