446, Lot: 412. Estimate $150. Sold for $170. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
|
Licinius I, with Licinius II, Caesar. AD 308-324. Æ Follis (22mm, 3.64 g, 12h). Antioch mint, 6th officina. Struck AD 320-321. DD NN IOVII LICINII INVICT AVG ET CAES, half-length laureate busts of Licinius I, right, and Licinius II, left, each wearing consular robes, holding between them a trophy / I O M ET VIRTVTI DD NN AVG ET CAES, Jupiter standing left, holding scepter; to left, trophy with two captives seated at base; SMATS. RIC VII –; Bastien, “Coins with a Double Effigy Issued by Licinius at Nicomedia, Cyzicus, and Antioch,” (
Numismatic Chronicle 1973), p. 91, 5 (Pl. 6, 27-29). Near VF, brown surfaces, some encrustation, holed and plugged. Very rare.