LOT 3147
Valerian II, as Caesar AR Antoninianus. AD 254-255.
Viminacium(?) mint. P LIC VALERIANVS CAES, radiate and draped bust to right / PIETAS AVGG, sacrificial implements. RIC V.1 19 (Rome). Very Fine.(3.54gr, 22mm, 6h.).
ProvenanceFrom a private, UK, collection in the 1980s.
Property of a London, UK, antiquarian.
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Lucius Verus AE As. AD 161-169.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Rome mint. L VERVS ARM [...], laureate head to right / TR POT VI [...], Victory standing facing, erecting trophy with shield at base to left and holding palm frond; S C across fields. Cf. RIC III 1448 (TR P VI IMP IIII COS II); cf. Cohen 282 (same). 9.49gr, 25mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
Found Worcestershire, UK. -
Aurelian BI Antoninianus. AD 270-275.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
Mediolanum mint; struck AD 270-271. 2nd officina. IMP AVRELIANVS AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / [DAC]IA FELIX, Dacia standing to left, holding long staff, surmounted by ass's head; S in exergue. RIC V.1 108; MER-RIC 1383 (temporary); Cohen 73. 3.36gr, 19mm, 6h.
Good Very Fine. Some original silvering remaining. Rare.
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Roman Imperial, Terracotta Forger's Casting Mould. 4th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Laureate bust or head to right / SOLI INV-[...], radiate Sol standing facing, head to left, right hand raised and holding globe(?) in left. 5.01gr, 27mm, 8h.
Condition as seen.
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.
