LOT 3337
Trajan AR Denarius. AD 103-111. Rome mint.
IMP TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P, laureate bust to right with slight drapery on left shoulder / COS V P P S P Q R OPTIMO PRINC, Pax standing to left, holding cornucopia and setting fire to pile of arms; PAX in exergue. RIC II 102; BMCRE 401; RSC 196b. Extremely Fine.(3.35gr, 19mm, 7h.).
ProvenanceAcquired 1970s-1996.
Property of a North American collector.
London collection, 2016.
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Romano-British Imitation of Constantine I BI Nummus. AD 272-337. Following Lugdunum mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
[...]-TiNVS AVG, laureate head to right / BEATA TRIIИOVILLITIS, altar inscribed VOTIS XX in three lines and surmounted by globe, three stars above; C R across fields, P⊥CI below. For prototype cf. RIC VII 131. 1.89gr, 18mm, 6h.
Very Fine. Very interesting and rare imitative issue.
Found Essex. 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. -
Augustus AR Denarius. 16 BC. Rome mint. C. Antistius Vetus, moneyer.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £208
[C ANTISTIVS] VETVS III VIR, draped bust of Venus to right, wearing stephane / COS [I]MP CAESAR • AVGV XI in three lines, simpulum and lituus above; tripod and patera below. RIC I 367; BMCRE 98-99; RSC 348. 3.77gr, 17mm, 11h.
Near Very Fine. Bankers' marks on both sides.
Found Gloucestershire, UK. -
Maximian BI Nummus. AD 296. Cyzicus mint. 1st officina.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £23
IMP C M A MAXIMIANVS P F AVG, laureate head to right / GENIO POPVLI ROMANI, Genius, wearing modius on head, standing to left, holding patera and cornucopia; KA in exergue. RIC VI 10b. 10.77gr, 28mm, 12h.
Good Very Fine.
Acquired 1970s-1996. Property of a North American collector. London collection, 2016.
