LOT 3108
Trajan AR Denarius. AD 98-117.
Rome mint; struck AD 113-114. IMP TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P COS VI P P, laureate and draped bust to right / S P Q R OPTIMO PRINCIPI, Genius standing facing, head to left, holding patera and corn ears. RIC II 275; BMCRE 429-430; Woytek 421v; RSC 398. Extremely Fine/Near Extremely Fine. Coin stored in square coin capsule.(3.27gr, 20mm, 7h.).
ProvenanceEx Bertolami Fine Arts - ACR Auctions, 5 December 2011, no.961.
Ex ACR ArtCoins Roma, 20 May 2015, no.3192.
Accompanied by Certificate of Authenticity and Provenance.
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Antoninus Pius AR Denarius. AD 138-161.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Rome mint; struck AD 145-147. ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P, laureate head to right / COS IIII, Concordia standing facing, head to left, holding patera in her right hand and vertical sceptre in her left. RIC III 129; Cohen 226; BMCRE 521. 3.01gr, 18mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
Found Braintree, Essex, UK. Accompanied by a copy of the British Museum's Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) report no.ESS-9F6A6F. -
Tetricus I, Romano-Gallic Emperor BI Antoninianus. AD 271-274.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
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. 2.41gr, 20mm, 6h.
Good Very Fine. Double struck of obverse.
From a private, UK, collection in the 1980s. Property of a London, UK, antiquarian. -
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.
