A DISTINGUISHED COLLECTION OF ROMAN BRONZE COINS, THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
ANCIENT COINS, Roman Imperial Coinage, Diva Faustina Senior, As, Rome, after 141, draped and veiled bust right, diva favstina, rev. aeternitas, Providentia standing left, holding globe and sceptre, s c in field, 11.52g (RIC Antoninus Pius 1163a (b); BMC 1459; C 38; Sear 4635). Good very fine or better, dark patina, but smoothed on obverse and marked in reverse fields £200-300
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Provenance: Disinger Collection; R. Laughlin Collection, Adolph Hess Auction 221 (Lucerne), 18 December 1933, lot 578; bt Seaby February 1934