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Auction: 24125 - Spink Numismatic e-Circular 39: Ancient Coins, featuring the Little Busby Hoard of Roman Denarii - e-Auction
Lot: 1428

Roman Empire, a Selection of Antonine-Nervan Bronze (5): Nerva, (AD 96-98), AE Aes, c. 97, IMP NERVA CAES AVG [P M TR P COS III P P], radiate head right, rev. Aequitas standing left, holding cornucopia and libra,S-C in fields, 6h, 10.34g, (RIC, 94) nicely toned, legends flattened, deposits on obverse, nevertheless good to fine; Trajan, (AD 98-117), (3): i) AE Sestertius, laureate head right, rev. Aequitas standing left, 18.01g, (RIC--) lamentably flattened and obscured, lustrous, good; ii) Provincial, AE, Seleucia-Pieria, head right, rev. sacred stone of Zeus Kasios with tetra-stryle temple, 12h, 5.15g, (RPC, 3771), earthen green patina, nicely-struck, good fine to very fine; AE Sestertius, c. AD112, IMP CAES NERVAE TRAIANO AVG GER DAC PM TR P COS VI PP, laureate bust right, shoulder draped, rev. SPQR [OPTIM]O PRINCIPI, Annona standing facing with corcnucopiae and two ears of corn, over boy, togate to left, S-C in fields, ALIM-ITAL in exergue, 6h, 25.74g, (RIC, 459) slightly sand-blasted, details flattened but an impressive strike, especially on obverse legend, toned, good fine (3); Marcus Aurelius, (AD161-180), AE Sestertius, Rome, 169,M ANTONINVS AVG TR P XXIII laureate head right, rev. SALVTI AVG COS III Salus standing left feeding snake, S-C in fields, 12h, 25.46g, (RIC, 979) dark tone with lustre, impressive strike, light scratches but about very fine, (5).

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