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Auction: 24125 - Spink Numismatic e-Circular 39: Ancient Coins, featuring the Little Busby Hoard of Roman Denarii - e-Auction
Lot: 1057

Roman Empire, Antoninus Pius (AD 138-161), AR Denarii (8): i) Rome, ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P IMP II, laureate head right, rev. TR POT XX COS IIII, Salus seated left, feeding snake around altar with patera, 3.08g possible plate copy (RIC 264; BMC 882 [Spink XRF: Obverse: 90.71% Au; 8.36% Cu; 0.926% Pb; Reverse: 73.78% Ag; 25.30% cu; 0.771 % Pb; 0.16% Ga]), verdigris to reverse, about fine; ii) another, as before, 3.52g, fine to good fine; iii) another, as before, rev. TR POT XX COS IIII, Annona standing right with rudder and modius, foot on prow, 2.68g (RIC 260; BMC 883), good to fine; iv) another, as before, ANTONINVS AVG PIVS [...], rev. TR P[OT ...] COS IIII, Annona standing right with rudder and modius, foot on prow, 3.18g (RIC 260ff; BMC 883ff), fair to good; v) another, as before, ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P IMP II, rev. TR POT XXI COS IIII, Annona standing right, holding rudder and modius, foot on prow, 3.12g (RIC 275; BMC 908), softly-struck, good to fine; vi) another, as before, ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P TR P XXII, rev. FELIC SAEC COS IIII, Felicitas standing right, holding caduceus, 3.10g (RIC 298; BMC 970), about fine; vii) ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P TR P XXIII, rev. SALVTI AVG COS IIII, Salus standing left, feeding snake around altar with patera and holding sceptre, 2.74g (RIC 304; BMC 987), near fine; viii) another, as before, 3.37g, verdigris, yet good to fine; (8).

Provenance

The Little Busby Hoard of Roman Denarii, found at Little Busby, North Yorkshire, on 2 June 2021 [PAS YORYM-B64A28]



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