Note: RIC, p.108, lists the reverse as SOLI INVICTO COMITI, but
cites it from Vierordt
Sale 1923, 2484.
That catalogue lists and illustrates the coin with SOLI INVICTO
COMITI AVG.
Chronology: Pink's 5th emission of Serdica, 280 CE (Pink)
/ 281 CE (Gysen).
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| RIC 829 corr.; Pink p. 46 [34] Nº 3;
Serdica. Bust type G variant, (E1 variant).
Denomination: Aureus. |
OBV.: SOL COMIS PROBI AVG Cesures: SOL COM_I_S PROBI A_VG Jugate busts left of Emperor helmeted, cuirassed, with spear and shield, and Sol radiate. REV.: SOLI INVICTO COMITI AVG Radiate draped head of Sol right. Mintmark: - Weight: 7.08 g. Image provided courtesy of Boston Museum of Fine Arts "Provenance — By date unknown: H. C. Hoskier Collection; 1907: with Jacob Hirsch, Arcisstrasse 17, Munich (auction 20 [Hoskier collection], November 1907, no. 658); by date unknown: R. Jameson Collection; 1924: with Feuardent Freres, 4, rue Louvois, 4, Paris (auction of the Jameson collection, III, no. 467 [citing Vierordt sale, Amsterdam, 1923, no. 2484]); by 1958: with Leu and Co.'s Bank, Ltd., Bahnhofstrasse 32, Zurich, Switzerland; February 12, 1964: purchased by MFA from Leu & Co.'s Bank, Ltd. Credit Line: Theodora Wilbour Fund in memory of Zoë Wilbour." © MFA Boston |
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