LOT 3663
Trajan Decius AR Antoninianus. AD 249-251. Antioch mint.
IMP C M Q TRAIANVS DECIVS AVG, radiate and cuirassed bust to right / VICTORIA AVG, Victory advancing to left, holding wreath and palm. RIC IV 29c var. (bust type); RSC 113a var. (same). Good Very Fine.(4.09gr, 22mm, 6h.).
ProvenanceFrom the private collection of a Canadian gentleman living in Essex, UK, formed since the 1920s-circa 1990.
Property of an Essex lady until the late 1990s; thence by descent.
From the private collection of an Essex gentleman since the late 1990s.
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Constantius I, as Caesar, BI Nummus. AD 296-303. London mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
FL VAL CONSTANTIVS NOB C, laureate and cuirassed bust to right / GENIO POPVLI ROMANI, Genius, modius on head and chlamys on shoulder, standing to left, holding patera and cornucopia. RIC VI 14a; C&T 2.01.010; RML 37. 9.91gr, 30mm, 7h.
Very Fine. Struck on a large flan.
Acquired on the UK art market. Property of a London, UK, antiquarian. -
Constans BI Centenionalis. Circa AD 348-350. Uncertain mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
D N CONSTANS P F AVG, pearl-diademed, draped and cuirassed bust to right; A behind / FEL TEMP REPARATIO, emperor standing to left on galley, holding Victory on globe and Chi-Ro standard, behind, Victory steering ship; A in left field, mintmark in exergue. Cf. RIC VIII 243 (Treveri). 4.77gr, 21mm, 12h.
Good Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market. Property of a London, UK, antiquarian. -
Romano-British Imitation of Constans AE Nummus. AD 337-361. Following Treveri mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £85
CONSTANS P F AVG, pearl-diademed, draped and cuirassed bust to right / VICTORIAE DD AVGGQ NN, two Victories standing, facing one another, each holding wreath; palm in centre field; TRP in exergue. For prototype cf. RIC VIII 206. 2.09gr, 15mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
Found Yorkshire, UK. From the private collection of Robin Sykes, Yorkshire, UK, formed since the late 1990s.
