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Auction: 24125 - Spink Numismatic e-Circular 39: Ancient Coins, featuring the Little Busby Hoard of Roman Denarii - e-Auction
Lot: 1426

Roman Empire, Selection of Antonine-Nervan Denarii (8): i) Trajan (AD 98-117), TRAIANO AVG GERM DAC P M TR P, laureate head right, drapery to far shoulder, rev. COS V P P SPQR OPTIMO PRINC, Victory standing left, holding wreath and palm, 3.37g (RIC 131 var. (bust); Woytek 282bC), cleaned, however detailed and extremely fine; ii) Hadrian (117-138), rev. ANNONA AVG, modius containing corn ears, 3.00g, good fine; iii) Antoninus Pius (138-161), struck under Marcus Aurelius, rev. DIVO PIO, column on low base surmounted by statue of Antoninus, holding sceptre, 3.53g (RIC 439), near extremely fine; iv) Marcus Aurelius (161-180), IMP M AVREL ANTONINVS AVG, bare head right, rev. PROV DEOR TR P XV COS III, Providence standing left, holding globe and cornucopiae, 3.47g (RIC 51), very fine; v) Lucius Verus, rev. FORT RED TR P VIII COS III, Fortuna seated left, holding cornucopiae and rudder, COS IIII in exergue, 3.47g (RIC 586), good fine, a rare date with Verus's last tribunate, assumed shortly before his death in 169; vi) Commodus (177-192), 2.85g, rev. TR P VI IMP IIII, Roma seated left, holding Victory and spear, 2.86g (RIC 72), about fine; vii) Lucilla, rev. PVDICITIA, Pudicitia seated left, hand on breast, 2.76g (RIC 781), about very fine; viii) Crispina, rev CONCORDIA, Concordia standing left, holding patera and cornucopiae, 3.00g (RIC 278), very fine; (8).

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£450

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