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Auction: 24125 - Spink Numismatic e-Circular 39: Ancient Coins, featuring the Little Busby Hoard of Roman Denarii - e-Auction
Lot: 1438

Roman Empire, A Selection of Third-Century Bronze and Billion (7): i) Provincial, Gordian III, (AD 238-244) BI Tetradrachm, Alexandria, Egypt, RY 7/AD243-4, A K M AIT GORDIANOS PI laureate bust of Gordian III right, draped and cuirassed, rev. laureate bust of Nilus right, date mark behind, cornucopiae before, 12h, 12.78g, (RPC, 3878; Geissen, 2676–7) toned with light patina, characterful strike especially on reverse, a rare example and about very fine ; ii) Philip I, 'The Arab', (AD244-249), BI Antonianus, IMP M IVL PHILIPPVS AVG radiate bust right, draped and cuirassedrev. P M TR P II COS PP, Philip seated left on curule chair, 12h, 4.22g, (RIC, 2b; RSC, 120), nice strike, well centred and toned, good fine; iii) Provincial, Philip II, (AD247-249), AE, Nisbis, Mesopotamia, radiate bust left, cuirassed, wearing paludamentum, rev. Tyche of Antioch, seated facing, Ram/Aries leaping high above right, head left, all within tetrastyle shrine, below, river-god Euphrates swimming right, 12h, 10.23g, (BMC, 22-3 (Philip I); cf. SNG Copenhagen, 240 (same); cf. Lindgren II, 2604 (same); Agora, 71, 203) about fine; Maximian, First Reign, (AD286-305), AE Follis (2): iv) Cyzicus, c.295-296, IMP C M A MAXIMIANVS PF AVG laureate head right, rev. GENIO POPVLI ROMANI Genius standing left, holding patera and cornucopiae, KE in exergue, 6h, 10.51g, (RIC, 10b), well-struck, bright, lightly scratched and flattened but otherwise very fine; v) Another, Ticinum, c.296-297,IMP C M A MAXIMIANVS PF AVG laureate head right, rev. GENIO POPVLI ROMANI Genius standing left, holding patera and cornucopiae, star in left field, 2h, 10.52g, (RIC, 31b), toned and lustrous with some deposits and verdigris, otherwise good fine (2); Trebonius Gallus, (AD251-253) (2): vi) BI Antoninianus, Antioch, c.251-252, IMP CAE C VIB TREB GALLVS AVG radiate bust right, rev. SAEC[VLLVM] NOVVM, hexastyle temple with Roma seated within; mintmark IIV, 6h, 2.41g, (RIC, 91; RSC, 111f) lustrous, some porosity, flattened at edges, near fine; vii) Volusian(?), (AD251-253) AE, both sides obscured, toned, good; (10). Sold as described, no returns.

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