Roma Numismatics Ltd
Auction XXI 24-25 Mar 2021
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Julia Domna (wife of S. Severus) AV Aureus. Laodicea ad Mare, circa AD 196-202. IVLIA AVGVSTA, draped bust to right, hair waved and coiled at back / SAECVLI FELICITAS, Isis standing to right, wearing peaked head-dress, left foot on prow of galley, with the infant Horus at her breast; altar behind, against which rests a rudder. RIC IV 645; C. 177; Biaggi 1153 (this coin) = Calicó 2637 (this coin). 7.07g, 21mm, 12h.
Extremely Fine; magnificent deep red tone. Extremely Rare; no other examples offered at auction in the past 20 years.
This coin published in X. Calicó, Los Aureos Romanos (Barcelona, 2002);
From the Collection of GK, Ukrainian Emigrant;
Ex Nomisma S.p.a. (San Marino), Auction 12, 14 November 1998, lot 446;
Ex Leo Biaggi de Blasys Collection, acquired privately in 1978 by Bank Leu (Zürich) and a partner.
This coin is very likely part of the Getrudenstrasse Hoard of Cologne, found by workmen digging the foundation of a building in 1909. It consisted of approximately 15,000 denarii and 150 aurei thought to have been votive offerings buried to protect them from the extortionate policies of Maximinus. Many of the coins of that hoard bear a distinctive colouration similar to that of the Boscoreale Hoard. The intense colouration is suggestive of the coins having been subjected to extreme heat, likely as the result of a fire that consumed the building above.
Extremely Fine; magnificent deep red tone. Extremely Rare; no other examples offered at auction in the past 20 years.
This coin published in X. Calicó, Los Aureos Romanos (Barcelona, 2002);
From the Collection of GK, Ukrainian Emigrant;
Ex Nomisma S.p.a. (San Marino), Auction 12, 14 November 1998, lot 446;
Ex Leo Biaggi de Blasys Collection, acquired privately in 1978 by Bank Leu (Zürich) and a partner.
This coin is very likely part of the Getrudenstrasse Hoard of Cologne, found by workmen digging the foundation of a building in 1909. It consisted of approximately 15,000 denarii and 150 aurei thought to have been votive offerings buried to protect them from the extortionate policies of Maximinus. Many of the coins of that hoard bear a distinctive colouration similar to that of the Boscoreale Hoard. The intense colouration is suggestive of the coins having been subjected to extreme heat, likely as the result of a fire that consumed the building above.