Lockdales Auction 175 28-29 March 2020

1453 Caracalla bronze of Bithynia, Nicaea of c.25mm., obverse:- Laureate bust right, reverse:- Legionary Standard at centre flanked by two others, Ex.Simon Callan, Ex. Vosper, with 2 old tickets, with hard even black-green patina, NEF/GVF £50 - £60 1454 Caracalla colonial bronze of Pautalia, Thrace of c.29mm., reverse:- Coiled serpent in pyramidal form, with triple ended tail and halo around head, Ex. Simon Callan Collection, with three old tickets, GVF £60 - £80 1455 Caracalla silver denarius, obverse:- Laureate and draped youthful bust right, reverse reads:- FELICITAS AVGG, Felicitas standing half-left, holding long caduceus and cornucopiae, Sear - , and as the type seems Ce is also ESC III, p.65 possibly unpublished? of good metal, GVF £40 - £45 1456 Carausius billon antoninianus, London Mint, obverse reads:- IMP C CARAVSIVS P F AVG [legend C], reverse reads PAX AVG, S P in field, MLXXI in exergue, Pax standing left holding olive-branch and vertical sceptre, as Sear 13639 variety, found Yorkshire, hard even milk-green patina, GVF £50 - £70 1457 Constantius I as Caesar under Maximian I, 293- 305A.D., billon follis reverse reads:- GENIO POPVLI ROMANI, Genius, wearing modius, standing left, holding pateria [no liquid] and cornucopiae, no mint marks, given to the London Mint 300-303 A.D., Sear 14034, GVF £30 - £40 1458 Diva Faustina Senior, sestertius, reverse:- Ceres, F with a Faustina Junior copper as, reverse:- Venus stg. right grasping arm of Mars, holding shield [scarce], F, with a ditto but reverse Venus, F/NF and lastly a Post-Reform radiate of Maximinanus, reverse:- VOT XX M within wreath, GF all with their old packets [4] £40 - £50 1459 Divus Augustus, copper as, struck by Tiberius, Rome Mint 22-30A.D., Sear 1789, reverse:- Facade of altar- enclosure of the Ara Providentiae Augusti with closed doors, top of altar with horns, Ex. Rev. P.D.Burrows Collection, reverse slightly off centre, GF £40 - £45 1460 Domitian brass dupondius, Rome Mint 90-91 AD. Reverse: VIRTVTI AVGVSTI SC. Virtus Standing right. Sear 2798 var. RIC 706. Pleasing bust, nVF £50 - £70 1461 Faustina Junior gold aureus struck by her father Antoninus Pius at the Rome Mint in 154-156 A.D. reverse:- Dove standing on groundline, legend:- CONCORDIA around, Sear 4689, overall light marks under magnification [probably a detector find], round and well centred, VF £3250 - £3750