Classical Numismatic Group > Electronic Auction 572Auction date: 9 October 2024
Lot number: 647

Price realized: 225 USD   (Approx. 205 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


Divus Romulus. Died AD 309. Æ Follis (24.5mm, 6.31 g, 12h). Ostia mint, 2nd officina. 2nd emission of Maxentius, Phase 2, early AD 310-late 312. Bare head right / Domed shrine with door ajar; on dome, eagle standing right, head left; MOSTS. RIC VI 34; Drost 72. Dark red-brown patina, weakness. VF.

From the I. L. Collection.


Estimate: 150 USD

Match 1:
Classical Numismatic Group > Electronic Auction 570Auction date: 11 September 2024
Lot number: 465

Price realized: 250 USD   (Approx. 226 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


Divus Maximianus. Died AD 310. Æ Follis (23.5mm, 5.52 g, 6h). Rome mint, 2nd officina. Struck under Maxentius, circa AD 310-311. Veiled bust right / Tetrastyle domed shrine with door ajar; eagle standing right, head left, on dome; RES. RIC VI 244. Dark brown patina, some weakness, slight roughness. VF.


Estimate: 100 USD

Match 2:
Classical Numismatic Group > Electronic Auction 572Auction date: 9 October 2024
Lot number: 646

Price realized: 100 USD   (Approx. 91 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


Maxentius. AD 307-312. Æ Follis (26.5mm, 7.18 g, 1h). Aquileia mint, 2nd officina. 4th emission, spring-summer AD 309-late 309/circa early 310. Laureate head right / Roma, holding spear, seated left on shield in tetrastyle temple, handing globe to Maxentius standing right, holding scepter; seated captive between; Victories as acroteria; wolf and twins in pediment; AQS. RIC VI 113; Drost 35b. Dark green-brown patina. Good VF.

From the David Welsh Collection.


Estimate: 100 USD

Match 3:
Classical Numismatic Group > Triton XXVIIIAuction date: 14 January 2025
Lot number: 747

Price realized: 2,000 USD   (Approx. 1,962 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


Divus Nigrinian. Died circa AD 284. Antoninianus (22.5mm, 4.28 g, 12h). Rome mint. 5th emission of Carinus, mid November AD 284. DIVO NIGRINANO, radiate head right / CONSECRATIO, eagle standing facing, head left, wings spread; KAA. RIC V 472; Pink VI/2, p. 38. Dark olive-brown patina with some verdigris. Near EF. A very attractive example in hand.

Ex MACM inventory MMoCA170C, purchased from Ian Roper Coins and Antiquities, 26 June 2009; Baldwin's 57 (23 September 2008), lot 201; Numismatic Fine Arts XXVII (4 December 1991), lot 178.


Estimate: 1000 USD

Match 4:
Classical Numismatic Group > Electronic Auction 574Auction date: 6 November 2024
Lot number: 393

Price realized: 120 USD   (Approx. 110 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


Divus Vespasian. Died AD 79. AR Antoninianus (21.5mm, 3.61 g, 12h). Consecration issue. Rome mint, 2nd officina. 8th emission of Trajan Decius, mid AD 251. Radiate head right / Eagle standing right, head left, with wings spread. RIC IV 79 (Decius); RSC 651. Lightly toned, slight roughness and reverse die wear. VF.


Estimate: 100 USD

Match 5:
Classical Numismatic Group > Electronic Auction 576Auction date: 4 December 2024
Lot number: 668

Price realized: 200 USD   (Approx. 191 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


Volusian. AD 251-253. Æ Sestertius (28mm, 16.34 g, 6h). Rome mint, 6th officina. 2nd emission, late AD 251-mid 252. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Pax standing left, holding olive branch and transverse scepter. RIC IV 256a; Banti 16. Dark brown and red patina, smoothing. VF.

From the Delaware Collection. Ex CNG inventory 161392 (December 2005); William C. Boyd Collection (Baldwin's 42, 26 September 2005), lot 628 (part of), with his original ticket (numbered 109), purchased from A. H. Baldwin.


Estimate: 150 USD