LOT 3099
Vespasian AE Sestertius. AD 69-79.
Rome mint; struck AD 71. IMP CAES VESPAS AVG P M TR P P P COS III, laureate head to right / Mars advancing to right holding spear with his right hand and trophy over his left shoulder; S C across fields. RIC II.1 247; Cohen 440; BMCRE 568. Near Extremely Fine. Attractive dark olive-green patina.(27.47gr, 33mm, 8h.).
ProvenanceFrom the collection of Dr F. R. Meyer-Coloniensis, Part III, Münz Zentrum Köln 64, 15 April 1988, 158.
Ex Munzen & Medaillen AG Basel, List 523, July 1989, no. 32.
Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd, Auction XIX, 26 March 2020, lot 805.
Ex Mayfair, London, UK, collection.
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Philip I AE Sestertius. AD 244-249.
Estimate: £200 - 300 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £100
Rome mint; struck AD 248. 6th officina. 9th emission. Ludi Saeculares (Secular Games) issue, commemorating the 1000th anniversary of Rome. IMP M IVL PHILIPPVS AVG, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust to right / SAECVLARES AVGG, antelope walking to left. RIC IV 161; Banti 50. 16.31gr, 27mm, 1h.
Good Very Fine. Light brown patina. '5786' on reverse.
Ex private Hertfordshire, UK, collection, and David Miller, Hemel Hempstead, London, UK, 1990 (collector's tickets included).
Ludi Saeculares were secular games, and they were celebrated only once in a century, because it was scarcely given to a man to see them more than once in his life (in particular, the Romans reckoned a saeculum as the longest possible length of human life, either 100 or 110 years in length). -
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Magnentius BI Double Centenionalis. AD 350-353.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £130
Ambianum mint. D N MAGNEN-TIVS P F AVG, bare-headed, draped and cuirassed bust to right / SALVS DD NN AVG ET CAES, large Chi-Rho; A ω across fields, AMB in exergue. RIC VIII 34. 8.89gr, 25mm, 6h.
Very Fine.
Ex Compton Dundon hoard.
The Compton Dundon Hoard consisted of 564 Roman Nummi, a large proportion of which were issues of the usurper Magnentius and Decentius, issued AD 350-353. -
![Group of Thirty-Six [36] Mainly Roman and Byzantine AE Coins.](https://timelineauctions.com/upload/images/items/small/234218-s.jpg)
Group of Thirty-Six [36] Mainly Roman and Byzantine AE Coins. 4th-7th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Various types. 111gr total.
Condition as seen.
Property of a Worcestershire, UK, collector.
