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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Trajan AE Dupondius. AD 98-117.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £143
Rome mint; struck AD 116-117. IMP CAES NER TRAIANO OPTIMO AVG GER DAC P M THICO P M TR P COS VI P P (sic), radiate and draped bust to right / SENATVS POPVLVSQVE [ROMANVS], emperor standing facing, head to left, between two trophies; S C in exergue. RIC II 676 var. (obverse legend); BMCRE 1052-4 var. (same); Woytek 586v var. (same). 14.12gr, 26mm, 6h.
Good Very Fine. Lightly smoothed and tooled, possibly resulting in variant in obverse legend.
Ex German art market, 2000s. Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd, E-Sale 111, 24 August 2023, lot 821 (company's ticket included). Acquired from an EU collector living in London. From the collection of a Surrey, UK, gentleman. -
Roman Imperial, Terracotta Forger's Casting Mould. 3rd century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
IMP C M AVR PROBVS P F AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust of Probus to right / RESTITVT ORIE-NTIS, turreted female (the Orient) standing to right, presenting wreath to Emperor standing to left, holding spear. 3.47gr, 28mm, 8h.
Condition as seen. Casting mould sharing types of different rulers.
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. -
Julian II BI Double Maiorina. AD 360-363.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
Arelate mint. 3rd officina. D N FL CL IVLI-ANVS P F AVG, pearl-diademed, draped and cuirassed bust to right / SECVRITAS REI PVB, bull standing to right, two stars above; before, eagle standing to right on wreath holding wreath in beak; TCONST in exergue. RIC VIII 318; LRBC 468. 8.91gr, 29mm, 6h.
Good Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
