| Spink > Auction 23005 | Auction date: 12 December 2023 |
| Lot number: 117 Price realized: 40 GBP (Approx. 50 USD / 47 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | Show similar lots on CoinArchives Find similar lots in upcoming auctions on  |
| Lot description: The 'Haddenham' Collection of English Coins | (5) Barbarous Imitations including: Imitations, Roman Empire, Claudius (41-54), 'Barbarous Imitation', AE As, [...]DIV CAESAR AVG[...], laureate bust left, rev. Minerva holding a spear and shield, walking to the right, in the fields of the letters S-C, 10.20g, 7h (RCV 539; Spink 746), some details blundered, roughness and porosity throughout, obverse better, fine; and, B>Tetricus I (ca. 270-273), 'Barbarous Radiate', AE Antoninian, legend blundered, radiate bust right, rev. ALVSAVGG, figure standing left, 2.26g, 11h (Selborne 51-82; Spink 749), largely blundered with jagged edges and significant wear, fine; and Constatine II (ca. 250-300), 'Barbarous 4th Century', AE Antoninian, CONSTANTINVS AVG, laureate, cuirassed bust right, rev. GLORIA EXERCITVS, two soldiers with spears, between them one legionary banner, 1.23g, 6h (Spink 750), green patina, slightly cracked edges in flan, good fine; and, 'Barbarous 4th Century', AE Antoninian, legend blundered, laureate bust right, rev. traces of design but unclear details, 0.84g, 10h (Spink 750), green patina, roughness and obscurity, fair to fine; another, 1.56g, 1h (Spink 750), brown patina, some porosity, roughness and obscurity, fair to fine (5). Provenance, i) T Matthews, by private treaty, 1981 - £36, ii) Bought for £2, Earl Selborne, The Blackmoore Hoard of Third Century Roman Bronze, Christie's, 9 December 1975, 1st Lord Selbourne ~ Found as part of the Blackmore Hoard in 1873. 1st Lord Selborne counted 29,802 coins, of wich, after various presentations during the past century, c.22,100 remained to be offered in 1975 sale., , , Selborne writing in The Numismatic Chronicle and Journal of the Numismatic Society, 1877, pp. 90-156: " On the 30th October, 1873, two earthenware vases (I suppose "ollae"), containing altogether, as counted by me, 29,802 coins, and which must have originally contained a still larger number, were dug up in Blackmoor Park. The spot where they were found is in the parish of Selborne, half-way between Alton and Petersfield, on the western border of Woolmer Forest, about a quarter of a mile N.W. of Woolmer Pond, and close to the point where the Gault clay, which lies below the hills connecting the North with the South Downs, joins the Lower Green sand of the forest. Within a mile of the same spot, in another part of Woolmer Forest, a considerable number of broken swords and spear-heads, &c. (all of bronze) were found one or two years before ; and at the latter place, a year afterwards, about one hundred coins of the Tetrici and Yictorinus, with a few of Gallienus, were also found., , The two pots, in which the 29,802 coins were found, were both of the same size and form : pear-shaped, rather more than a foot high, with a maximum diameter of about a foot. The exterior ornamentation (which was slight and simple) was not the same in both. The upper parts were broken, and the lids or covers were missing. The coins in them were closely packed, and caked together with dirt and verdigris ; so as to make it necessary to have those specimens which were worthy of special attention and study (the best of which are now collected in a cabinet at Blackmoor) cleaned." iii) 'IF', by private treaty, 1984 - £14, iv) 'IF', by private treaty, 1983 - £3, v) ~ Found 1962 by 'Gramp Balcombe' at 26 Rudds Lane, Haddenham, in garden on left of drive, Estimate: £50 - £100 |  |
