LOT 3150
Vespasian AE As. AD 69-79.
Rome mint; struck AD 71. IMP CAES VESPASIAN AVG COS III, laureate head to right / Altar with double panelled door; S C across fields, PROVIDENT in exergue. RIC II.1 316. Near Very Fine.(11.64gr, 27mm, 6h.).
ProvenanceFrom the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020).
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Constantine I BI Nummus. AD 307/310-337.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Cyzicus mint; struck AD 325-326. 1st officina. CONSTAN-TINVS AVG, laureate head to right / PROVIDEN-TIAE AVGG, camp gate with two turrets and no doors; star above, SMKA• in exergue. RIC VII 34. 2.96gr, 21mm, 12h.
Extremely Fine. Original silvering fully intact.
Ex Den of Antiquity, Cambridgeshire, UK. Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
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Salonina, Augusta BI Antonianus. AD 254-268.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Mediolanum mint; struck AD 266. 2nd officina. SALON[INA AVG], diademed and draped bust to right, set on crescent / AVG [IN] PACE, Salonina seated to left, holding olive branch with right hand and transverse sceptre in left; MS in exergue. RIC V 58; MIR 36, 1374e; RSC 17. 2.69gr, 21mm, 11h.
Good Very Fine. Silvering almost fully intact. Flan crack at 6h.
From a London, UK, collection, 1990s. -
Hadrian AE Sestertius. AD 117-138.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £2,080
Rome mint; struck AD 129-130. HADRIANVS AVGVSTVS, bare-headed and draped(?) bust to left / IVSTITIA AVG COS III P P, Justitia seated to left on throne, holding patera in her right hand and long sceptre in her left; S C in exergue. Cf. RIC II, part 3 1228. 23.94gr, 35mm, 12h.
Extremely Fine. Charming brown patina with green highlights. Very Rare.
Ex Arts Classica, Auction XV, 1930, lot 1552. Ex Stack's Bowers Galleries (& Ponterio), Sale 174 - N.Y.I.N.C. Auction Ebert I & Sess. B, 11 January 2013, lot 5213.
