LOT 3101
Vespasian AE As. AD 69-79.
Rome mint; struck AD 71. IMP CAES VESPASIAN AVG COS III, laureate head to right / AEQVITAS AVGVSTI, Aequitas standing facing, head to left, holding scales in her right hand and sceptre in her left; S C across lower field. RIC II 287; Cohen 13; BMCRE 600. Good Very Fine.(11.29gr, 28mm, 6h.).
ProvenanceFrom a private, UK, collection in the 1980s.
Property of a London, UK, antiquarian.
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Romano-British Imitation of Magnentius BI Double Centenionalis. AD 350-353.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £286
Following Ambianum mint; struck circa AD 351-353. D N MAGNENTIVS P F AVG, bare-headed, draped and cuirassed bust to right / SALVS DD NN AVG ET CAES, large Chi-Rho; A ധ (Alpha Omega) across fields, AMB in exergue. For prototype cf. RIC VIII 34; SCBC 612; see also Carson and J.P.C. Kent, 'A Hoard of Roman Fourth-Century Bronze Coins from Heslington, Yorkshire' in NC Vol. 11 (1971), p. 210. 11.40gr, 29mm, 6h.
Good Very Fine.
Found Yorkshire, UK. From the private collection of Robin Sykes, Yorkshire, UK, formed since the late 1990s. -
Tetricus I, Romano-Gallic Emperor BI Antoninianus. AD 271-274.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Treveri mint; struck AD 272-273. IMP TETRICVS P F AVG, radiate and cuirassed bust to right / LAETITIA AVGG, Laetitia standing facing, head to left, holding wreath with her right hand and anchor with left. RIC V.2 88 (Colonia Agrippinensis). 2.23gr, 21mm, 6h.
Very Fine.
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman (collector's ticket included). -
Aelius, Caesar AE As. AD 136-138.
Estimate: £150 - 200 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £83
Rome mint; struck under Hadrian, AD 137. L • AELIVS CAESAR, bare head to right / TR POT COS II, Pannonia standing facing, head left, holding vexillum upright on ground, gathering up dress with right hand; S C beneath PANN-O across fields. RIC II.3 2661 (PANNONIA). 14.16gr, 21mm, 6h.
Very Fine.
Ex UK private collection.
