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Auction 117 19-20 May 2021
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Didia Clara. Augusta, AD 193. Æ Sestertius (29mm, 17.93 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck under Didius Julianus. Draped bust right / Hilaritas standing left, holding long palm frond and cornucopia. RIC IV 20 (Didius); Banti 1. Red and brown patina, minor smoothing, some shallow scratches on reverse. VF.
From the Collection of a Gentleman, Kent, England. Ex Earl Fitzwilliam's Wentworth Estates Company Collection (Christie's, 30 May 1949), lot 449 (part of).
This Didia Clara Sestertius was part of the highly important collection of Roman Brass Coins and Medallions originally formed in the mid-eighteenth century, and sold by order of The Earl Fitzwilliam's Wentworth Estates Company. Spring notes that the coins came from the collections of the Museo del Padri Corsini acquired in Italy in 1748, and the Abbé Visconti, President of the Society of Antiquaries in Rome, purchased about 1774.
From the Collection of a Gentleman, Kent, England. Ex Earl Fitzwilliam's Wentworth Estates Company Collection (Christie's, 30 May 1949), lot 449 (part of).
This Didia Clara Sestertius was part of the highly important collection of Roman Brass Coins and Medallions originally formed in the mid-eighteenth century, and sold by order of The Earl Fitzwilliam's Wentworth Estates Company. Spring notes that the coins came from the collections of the Museo del Padri Corsini acquired in Italy in 1748, and the Abbé Visconti, President of the Society of Antiquaries in Rome, purchased about 1774.