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Auction 12 11 January 2015
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Valentinian III. 425-455 AD. Contorniate, 49.79g (1h). Rome, c. 433 AD. Obv: D N PLA VALENTI – NIANVS P F AVG Diademed, draped and cuirassed bust right, seen from front; in right field, sun incuse. Rx. MARGARI – TA VINCAS Performer standing facing, head right, holding wreath in right hand; to left, winged putto flying right, holding out wreath to the performer. Alföldi 466, this coin only, illustrated pl. 189, 6. RIC 2176, pl. 54 (this coin). VF
Ex NAC 72, 16 May 2013, lot 803. Ex Sachero Collection, Turin. Ex Egger 45, 1913, lot 1259
The performer shown on the reverse was apparently a man, MARGARITA being the vocative form of the masculine name Margarites: see Die Kontorniat-Medaillons II, p. 224. The same obverse die was also used with a reverse die commemorating the consulship of Petronius Maximus in 433 AD
Ex NAC 72, 16 May 2013, lot 803. Ex Sachero Collection, Turin. Ex Egger 45, 1913, lot 1259
The performer shown on the reverse was apparently a man, MARGARITA being the vocative form of the masculine name Margarites: see Die Kontorniat-Medaillons II, p. 224. The same obverse die was also used with a reverse die commemorating the consulship of Petronius Maximus in 433 AD