I believe this coin has been misdescribed and is in actuality the rather common RIC 497; BMCRE 1106-1108; Cohen/RSC 24; Sear 4702, "Spes standing left, holding flower and raising skirt."
ivanzdravkov
21. Oct. 2018, 21:13
Rarity is - S, not R2!
Roman_Collector
13. Oct. 2018, 04:29
At 16.22 g and 26.5 mm, that coin is a dupondius, not a sestertius.
Okidoki
11. Oct. 2018, 20:24
completely Tooled
barius74
8. Oct. 2018, 16:08
Now in prof. Alessandro Bario collection
commodo
8. Oct. 2018, 12:20
Obviously a drachm, not a hemidrachm.
Emilio
7. Oct. 2018, 14:43
After the publication of Westermark’s most awaited corpus of Akragas, it has ben possible to track its impressive pedigree before that cited above:
Westermark 348.2 (O10/R34) (this coin)
ex Peus 250, 15 March 1954, 116, from the Lejeune Collection, Rosenberg 72, 11 July 1932, 159 and that of F. S. Benson, Sotheby, 3 February 1909, 171 bought by Bourgey
Coins de droit et de revers différents, mais même marque d'atelier à l'exergue que l'imitation de Procope vendue par H. D. Rauch GmbH en novembre 2017 : https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4544038
Coins de droit et de revers différents, mais même marque d'atelier à l'exergue que l'imitation de Procope vendue par H. D. Rauch GmbH en novembre 2017 : https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4544038
Westermark 348.2 (O10/R34) (this coin)
ex Peus 250, 15 March 1954, 116, from the Lejeune Collection, Rosenberg 72, 11 July 1932, 159 and that of F. S. Benson, Sotheby, 3 February 1909, 171 bought by Bourgey
Reverse type: https://www.all-your-coins.com/en/search-by-picture/romaines-167/type-de-revers-268/victoire-dans-une-couronne-2009/
Probably Johannes emperor VICTORIA AVGGG
https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4544038
https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3345464
https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4544038
https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1803868
https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=363586
RPC III, 277
http://www.forumancientcoins.com/fakes/displayimage.php?pos=-14754
Wrongly attributed.