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Auction: 23004 - Ancient and British Coins - Featuring the 'White Rose' Collection
Lot: 648

Roman Empire, Julia Domna, wife of Septimius Severus (193-217), AV Aureus, struck AD 193-196, Rome, IVLIA DOMNA AVG, draped bust right, rev. VENVS G-E-NETRIX, Venus seated left, holding apple and sceptre, to left, a small naked and winged Cupid standing right with both hands outstretched, 7.28g [112.3grns], 11h (Cohen 203; BMC 55; RIC IV¹, 53; RCV 6568; Calicó 2643; Spink 15 April 2004, lot 44 same dies), a beautifully detailed portrait in high relief only further accentuated by mint lustre, a faint softening of dies to finest points, otherwise good extremely fine, much as issued and with a superbly documented pedigree back to discovery in Egypt in 1904!

Provenance

Rev. W L Gantz, Glendining, 27 May 1941, lot 562* - extremely fine - £18.10.0 [Spink for "White Rose" on 5% Commission]

Señor Don I. Soler of Madrid, Glendining, 24 November 1925, lot 143 - "F.D.C" - £14.10.0 [Gantz]

Sir John Evans, Rollin & Feuardent (Drouot), 26-27 May 1909, lot 196* - FDC - 260 Francs

~ Found at Egypt, 1904 ~




Sir John Evans gave his Presidential address at the General Meeting of the Egypt Exploration Society (Founded 1882), on 14 November 1904. William Matthew Flinders Petrie, who led the expedition of 1903-04, documented his excavations at Ihnasya el-Medina [Heracleopolis Magna] which revealed a principal town in Upper Egypt that dated from the Roman, Byzantine and early Islamic period. It is likely that this remarkable coin was recovered from this expedition or the contemporary discoveries of papyrii being made at Oxyrhynchus by Bernard Pyne Grenfell and Arthur Surridge Hunt.

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Sold for
£7,500

Starting price
£7000