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'Urbs Roma"  - Constantinian Commemorative Issues
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R2007 - Constantinian Commemorative Issue, Dedicated to the city of Rome (A.D. 332-333), Bronze Follis, 2.99g., Treveri mint (Trier, Germany), second officina,  helmeted bust Roma wearing imperial mantle left, VRBS ROMA, rev.,  she-wolf standing left, with Romulus and Remus suckling beneath, two stars and a branch above,  TRS in exergue (RIC 561), practically as struck, dark patina, superb. $135 SOLD

 

Provenance:
Ex Nether Compton Hoard (Dorset, England)
 
The Nether Compton Hoard
Found by Mike Pittard with the aid of a metal detector in a field near Nether Compton on February 19th, 1989. The findspot is close by a known ancient trackway and Roman structure. The actual finding of the hoard was photographed and a report published in The Searcher magazine (Issue 44, April 1989).

Consisting of  22,670 coins in a pot, the hoard appears to have been deposited around A.D. 339, over 90% of the hoard were Gloria Exercitus, Urbs Roma and Constantinopolis types. The hoard also contained an number of earlier coins dating back to the reign of Aurelian.
 
The find was reported to the local coroner and not being regarded as treasure under the then Treasure Trove legislation was returned to the finder and made available to collectors via the numismatic trade. No record of the find was made by either the British Museum or Dorset County Museum. The pot and several coins fused to it were donated to Dorset County Museum.
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R1622 - Constantinian Commemorative Issue, Dedicated  to the city of Rome (A.D. 330-331), Bronze Follis, 2.70g., Arelate mint (Arles, France), helmeted bust Roma wearing imperial mantle left, VRBS ROMA, rev., she-wolf standing left, with Romulus and Remus suckling beneath, two stars and tree  above,  [P or SCONST] in exergue (RIC 392), reverse off-centre, practically as struck. $125 SOLD
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R1511 - Constantinian Commemorative Issue, Dedicated to the city of Rome (A.D. 330-331), Bronze Follis, 2.56g., Lugdunum mint (Lyons, France), first officina, helmeted bust Roma wearing imperial mantle left, VRBS ROMA, rev., she-wolf standing left, with Romulus and Remus suckling beneath, two stars above,  ●PLG in exergue (RIC 242), practically as struck, dark patina, superb. $75