LOT 2849
Vespasian AR Denarius. AD 69-79.
Ephesus mint; struck AD 70. IMP CAESAR VESPAS AVG COS II TR P P P, laureate head to right / AVG above monogram; all within wreath. RIC II.1 1414; cf. RPC II 822. Good Very Fine.(3.41gr, 18mm, 1h.).
ProvenanceEx German art market, 2000s.
Acquired from an EU collector living in London.
From the collection of a Surrey, UK, gentleman.
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LOT 2849
Vespasian AR Denarius.
Estimate £300 - 400€350 - 460 (for guidance only)$410 - 540 (for guidance only)
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Geta, as Caesar, AR Denarius. AD 198-209.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Rome mint; struck AD 209. P SEPTIMIVS GETA CAES, bare-headed and draped bust to right / PONTIF COS II, Genius standing facing, head to left, sacrificing out of patera over lighted altar and holding corn-ears. RIC IV 59a; BMCRE 584 (Septimius and Caracalla); RSC 114a. 3.19gr, 19mm, 6h.
Good Very Fine.
Property of a Norwich, UK, collector. -
Salonina, Augusta AR Antoninianus. AD 254-268.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Rome mint; struck AD 257-258. 4th officina. SALONINA AVG, diademed and draped bust to right, set on crescent / PVDICITIA, Pudicitia seated to left, raising veil with right hand and holding transverse sceptre with left; Q in exergue. RIC V.1 25 (Gallienus); RSC 94a. 4.04gr, 21mm, 6h.
Good Very Fine.
From a London collection, 1990s. -
Domitian AE As. AD 81-96.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Rome mint; struck AD 87. [IMP CAES DOMIT AVG GERM COS XIII] CENS PER P P, laureate head to right / [VIRTVTI] AVGVSTI, Virtus standing to right, foot on helmet, holding spear and parazonium; S C across fields. RIC II.1 550; BMCRE 404. 10.04gr, 28mm, 6h.
Fine. Edges having been tapped to create raised rims.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
Proto-contorniate is the modern term used to describe Roman Imperial and Provincial bronze coins of the first, second, and early third centuries with hammered-up edges. These raised edges on the rims probably occurred after these bronze issues no longer circulated and ceased to be part of the currency in general use. A common assumption is that proto-contorniates functioned as game counters since the rim created through hammering could protect the designs. Andreas Alföldi in Die Kontorniaten (Budapest, 1943) believed proto-contorniates to be forerunners of the contorniates of the fourth and fifth centuries. He argued that proto-contorniates were New Year's gifts and that the older coins were actually hammered in the fourth century before the contorniates proper came into being.
