Ancient Gold Coins
Lot 3239 Session 11 (9.30am Thursday) Ancient Gold Coins
Estimate $40,000
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SOLD $51,500
URANIUS ANTONINUS, (A.D. 253-254), gold aureus, Emesa mint, issued A.D. 253-254, (5.28 grams), obv. laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Uranius Antoninus to left, around L IVL AVR SVL ANTONINVS, rev. around FECVNDITAS AVG, Fecunditas-Fortuna standing to left, holding rudder and cornucopiae, (S.9882, Baldus 83, RIC 3, C.-, Calico 3386). Slight scrape across the forehead otherwise extremely fine with mint bloom on a broad flan, one of the great rarities in the Roman series, only three other specimens recorded.
Ex Munzen & Medaillen, Auction 14, 16 April 2004, (lot 259) (Bally collection), previously from Munzen & Medaillen, Basel 93, 2003, (lot 250) and earlier purchased from a private collector on 10.11.1909 for 4,050 Swiss francs.
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