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Electronic Auction #27  11 November 2014
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Lot 118

Starting price: 20 USD
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CONSTANTINE II. AD 337-340. AE follis. EX ANS/HUNTINGTON. (19mm, 3.55g). Heraclea mint.
D N FL CL CONSTANTINVS NOB C. Laureate and draped bust left, holding mappa in right hand and globe with sceptre in left hand / PROVIDENTIAE CAESS. Camp gate with three turrets, no doors. RIC VII 20. Ex American Numismatic Society #1001.1.22857. VF.

Archer Milton Huntington (1870-1955) was one of the greatest philanthropists of the 20th century. A life-long friend of the arts, he supported many museums and institutions. He put together the greatest collection of Spanish art and artifacts in America, for which he founded and built in 1904 his own museum, the Hispanic Society of America. Huntington's interest in Spain extended to numismatics, and he assembled an enormous collection of almost 40,000 coins, which spanned over 2,500 years from the pre-Roman period to the 19th century. (read more ...)



Estimate: $30
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