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Auction 139 15 February 2017
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A DISTINGUISHED COLLECTION OF ROMAN BRONZE COINS, THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
ANCIENT COINS, Roman Imperial Coinage, Clodius Albinus (Cæsar), Sestertius, Rome, 194-5, bare-headed bust right, d clod sept albin caes, rev. con co [if cos ii], Concordia seated left, holding patera and double cornucopiæ, s c in field, 18.40g (RIC 62; BMC 483; C 7; Sear 6148). Traces of undertype in reverse legend, good very fine, attractive jade-green patina, rare £1,000-1,500
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Provenance: C.S. Bement Collection, Naville Auction VIII (Lucerne), 25-8 June 1924, lot 1150; bt Baldwin March 1937.
The reverse seems to be overstruck on an earlier sestertius with the legend miner pacif cos ii (RIC 54)
ANCIENT COINS, Roman Imperial Coinage, Clodius Albinus (Cæsar), Sestertius, Rome, 194-5, bare-headed bust right, d clod sept albin caes, rev. con co [if cos ii], Concordia seated left, holding patera and double cornucopiæ, s c in field, 18.40g (RIC 62; BMC 483; C 7; Sear 6148). Traces of undertype in reverse legend, good very fine, attractive jade-green patina, rare £1,000-1,500
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Provenance: C.S. Bement Collection, Naville Auction VIII (Lucerne), 25-8 June 1924, lot 1150; bt Baldwin March 1937.
The reverse seems to be overstruck on an earlier sestertius with the legend miner pacif cos ii (RIC 54)