LOT 3254
Unattributed Germanic Tribes AV Solidus. Late 5th century AD.
Possibly Gallic mint. In the name of Marcian (AD 450-457). D N MARCIA-INVS P F AVC, helmeted, pearl-diademed and cuirassed facing bust, holding spear in right hand and shield on left arm / VICTORI-A AVCCCЄ, Victory standing to left, holding in right hand long voided jewelled cross, star in right field; COИOB in exergue. Unpublished in the standard references, for other imitative issues in the name of Marcian cf. Depeyrot 89 (Imitations) = J.M. Fagerlie, Late Roman and Byzantine Solidi found in Sweden and Denmark, NNM 157 [1967], pl. XVI, 377; CNG-Triton 11, 2008, 1076 = Baldwin 47, 2006, 227; Gorny & Mosch 134, 2004, 3339. For prototype cf. RIC X 509; MIRB 5 (Constantinople). Good Very Fine.(4.23gr, 19mm, 6h.).
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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Crusaders, Antioch. Anonymous AE 18mm. Time of Levon I of Armenia, 1198-1219.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £338
Crusader to right on horseback, holding pennon / A-N-T-O; large cross pattée. Metcalf, Crusades 483; CCS 136 (see p. 234, note 43 for attribution to Sis mint under Levon I). 1.05gr, 18mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
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Crusaders. Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, Baldwin III BI Denier. 1143-1163.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
BALDVINVS RЄX, cross pattée / ✠ DЄ IЄRVSALЄM, tower of David. Cf. Metcalf, Crusades 159-164; cf. CCS 16. 0.82gr, 17mm, 11h.
Very Fine.
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France. Provincial, Limoges (Abby of Saint-Martial) AR Denier. 12th-13th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
SES • MARCIAL, facing bust of St. Martial / ✠ LEMOVICENSIS, cross pattée; pairs of pellets in each quarter. Boudeau 390; PdA. 2291. 0.92gr, 18mm, 8h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
