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LOT 2999
Victorinus, Romano-Gallic Emperor BI Antoninianus. AD 269-271.
Treveri mint; struck AD 270-271. IMP C VICTO[R]INVS P F AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / INVICTVS, Sol advancing to left, raising his right hand and holding whip with left; star in left field. RIC V.2 114 (Colonia Agrippinensis). Good Very Fine.(3.58gr, 24mm, 12h.).
Provenance
From a London, UK, collection, 1990s.
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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.
