Lot 2088

Description

Roman sestertii and other coins, a small group, Antoninus Pius, issued 140-144, rev. Tiber reclining resting hand on a ship, (RIC 642); Faustina Senior wife of Antoninus Pius, posthumous issue after 141, rev. Aeternitas seated left phoenix on globe and sceptre, (RIC 1103); Roman Republic, silver denarius of C. Memmius (56 B.C.), obv. head of Ceres to right, rev. captive kneeling right before trophy, (Cr.427/1, Syd. 920); modern copy in copper of tetradrachm by Eukleidas from Syracuse, (cf.S.955). Generally fine - very fine, first scarce. (4)