Augustus Coins: Roman coins, Greek coins, Byzantine coins, and other ancient coins for sale
Interesting ancient coins, offered by Augustus Coins.
If you want to buy ancient coins, you are beginning at the right page. If you want to learn more about them, visit my educational ancient-coin website (begun in 1997 and expanded very many times since then). If you like to learn from books, visit my page of ancient-coin literature. For more about me, see see here.
Contents: This is the main page with Roman coins and some of newest listings from other series too, at the top. For late Roman, Byzantine, or Greek coins, or books about them, use the links to the left.
Skip down to Republican, 1st C, 2nd C, or 3rd C
3rd C. more precisely: Septimius Severus, Caracalla, Elagablal, Severus Alexander,
Gordian III, Philip, Valerian, Gallienus, Gallo-Roman, Claudius II, Aurelian,
Probus, Tacitus, Carus and Family
Recent: 2021, Jan. 14: Four siliqua (of Julian II and Honorius, at the top).
2021, Jan. 9: Unlisted in RIC BONO GENIO of Maximinus II (at the top).
Jan. 6. Four special later Roman coins at the top. One in super condition and three remarkably unusual.
Jan 3: Happy New Year! Two coins of Constantine II at the top of this page.
2020, Dec. 29: Three excellent late Roman AE (at the top of this page).
Dec. 24: Severus II follis from Carthage (top of this page)
Leo V and Constantine, 813-820 (at the top of the Byzantine page).
Dec. 21: Oriental Greek and a Thasos nude satyr obol at the top of the Greek page. A few added to the inexpensive page. Arcadius and Theodosius AE2s on the late Roman page. Sold coins removed entirely.
Dec. 7; Hatra (now in Iraq). Vetranio AE2 with great chi-rhos. Two siliquae--Gratian and Theodosius. (At the top).
Dec. 6: Aurelian with SERD.
Dec. 3: Price of the Tribtue penny reduced.
2020, Nov. 26: Tiberius "Tribute Penny" authenticated and graded by NGC (at the top).
2020, Nov. 19: Five coins of Persis, at the top of the Greek page. Reduced most prices on the numismatic literature page. Take a look at some well-illustared books and catalogs.
Nov. 14: A possibly unique variety of the now-common first stater type of Aspendos on the Greek page. A quarter-follis on the inexpensive page.
Books. If you would like some literature to read, make me an offer. I think my prices are the lowest on the market, but I'd like to sell some of these to someone who would like to look at them. That might be you! Make me a (low) offer. I might well accept!
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Prices are in brackets: [$xx].
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My page of terms, which are essentially repeated here:
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After I confirm I still have the coin,
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Shipping in the US is $2 for orders under $25, $3 up to $50, $4 up to $100, and an additional $2 for each hundred thereafter.
Shipping to other countries: Shipping is an additional $3 for orders under $200 and payment must be with TransferWise or PayPal. (Thick coins change an "envelope" into a "small parcel" which costs significantly more in postage. I can mail about three denarius-sized coins as an "envelope," but not large Byzantine bronze or sestertii.) When you order, please tell me which country you live in and I will get back to you about shipping before you confirm your order.
More detailed terms are here. All coins are guaranteed genuine.
Reminder: When you buy a coin you must add in the shipping cost. Don't think a coin offered at $20 elsewhere will cost you $20. It won't. Shipping could easily be $6 or more. In contrast, I charge only $2 for shipping a $20 coin (in the US).
Purple means "SOLD" and no longer available
Newest first (down to the second horizontal line.)
After that, Roman coins before the 4th century are in chronological order below. Later Roman coins are on other pages linked in the sidebar.
(Greek, Byzantine, and other coins are on their own pages with links at the top left.)
Newest next. Skip the newest coins and go down to Roman coins in chronological order
Julian II, 355-360-363
Siliqua. 17 mm. 2.05 grams.
VOTIS V MVLTIS X in wreath
LVG in exergue
RIC VIII Lugdunum 219
Struck "Spring 360-26 June 363" (i.e. as Augustus)
Very nice flan, even strike, and toning. [$175 SOLD]
Unlisted in RIC.
Maximinus II, Caesar 305-310 and Augustus 310-313
Struck 311-312
IMP C GALER VAL MAXIMINVS PF AVG
BONO GENIO PII IMPERATORIS
The genius type with "BONO" is only from Alexandria.
B
K X in fields
ALE in exergue
RIC VI Alexandria --, close to 144b, however that whole group has an upward facing crecent in the upper left field. None of the types in RIC have this combination of field marks. Therefore
RIC VI Alexandria unlisted.
ex Empire Coins "Encore list" May 14, 1993, lot 386.
Nice rust color. Excellent reverse with good glossy patina. [$145]
Constantius II
17-15 mm. 2.26 grams.
FL IVL CONSTANTIVS NOB C
Struck 330-331
RIC Trier 528
Super surfaces and condition. Remarkably full flan.
This is a very common type, but rarely in such great shape. If you want one under $20, you can get a fairly nice one. If you want one of the very best, this one is
[$59] Slightly wine-colored patina. Splendid!
Constantine II, 317-337-340
20 mm. 3.53 grams.
DN CONSTANTINO IVN NC
VIRTVS EXERCIT
VOT
XX
on standard, two captives eated at base
PLG in exergue.
RIC Lyons 111 "r3" (but there are other similar varieties)
Virtually no wear. Glossy surface patina with faint traces of silvering. An excellent coin [$75]
Constantine II, 317-337-340
Bust left. CONSTANTINVS IVN NOB C
VOT
X in wreath
CAESARVM NOSTRORVM
(Our Caesars)
TSBVI
RIC Thessalonica 128, page 513
Struck as Caesar 324.
Bust left. [$27]
Constantius II, 324-337-361
15 mm.
Struck 337-340 at Trier
VIRTVS AVGG NN
RIC Trier 74
ex Malloy auction LX, "The Aiello Collection" 2001, lot 981, at $134 (twenty years ago). I knew it was rare and that auction had one of the best selections of late Roman AE ever offered in an auction catalog and other knowledgeable collectors wanted it too. (The auction was poorly printed on newpaper-quality paper, but it had many rare coins!)
Very rare. None on vcoins as I write. [$165]
Severus II, as Caesar under the second tetrarchy
305-306
Struck at Carthage
FL VAL SEVERVS NOB CAES
SALVIS AVGG ET CAESS FEL KART
H in field left and Γ in exergue.
RIC Carthage 40a "1 May 305 - 25 July 306"
Scarcer ruler from a scarcer mint with "KART" for "Carthage in the reverse legend. [$125 SOLD]
Hatra, a famous desert city in Iraq, second.-early third C. A.D. (wikipedia article)
13-12 mm. The small type, much less common, but small. 2.61 grams.
Radiate, unbearded head of Shamash, the sun god
Eagle with spread wings, palm branch up to right.
ANSMN 22 Slocum 18 "series 2" p. 41. p.44 suggests a date later than 138 and before 241.
SNG Copenhagen -- and supplement --.
Rare, from an interesting city. Small. [$75]
Galerius as Augustus, 3-5-310-313
GENIO AVGVSTI CMH monogram
Nicomedia mint.
Less green than the photo. Nice obverse legend [$25 SOLD]
Please compare prices with those on acsearch and vcoins and any other sites you use. I intend my prices to be below the prices for comparable coins anywhere else.
Roman Republican
core of a fourree denarius, with all the silver plate gone.
Prototype, L. Torquatus, 113-112 BC
18-17 mm. 2.54 grams
Roma
horseman charging left with big circular shield
Sear 172. Crawford 295/1.
Unusual. Ex Baldwin's in London, March 9, 1988 (no ticket)
[$16, reduced to $14]
***** I also have a page of numismatic literature (ancient-coin auction catalogs, books) for sale.
Roman Imperial Silver and AE
Early Imperial Fourree
A fourree with an especially remarkable reverse. The original would be a very expensive coin, and finding an imitation of it is extremely unusual and the imitation may well be unique of its type.
Search vcoins under "fouree" and "fourree" to see what dull reverse types are offered for. You will probably never see this good type again.
Fourree (counterfeit plated with silver in ancient times) Augustus/receiving standards back from the Parthians "Signus Receptus" CAESAR AVGVSTVS SIGN RECE hybrid.
This reverse does not normally have a portrait obverse. BMC 71 plate 3.1 for obverse legend and portrait. BMC plates 1.7-9, 2.2, 2.11-12 for obverse. Reverse of RIC 288, plate 5.
[$59, extremely rare (unique?) and hisorical type as an ancient counterfeit]
Augustus (27 BC - 14 AD)
Augustus, DIVVS, struck under Tiberius, c. 22/3 - 30 AD.
29 mm. 8.59 grams. (A little light.)
Small backwards S incuse mark at 7:00 on the obverse.
DIVVS AVGVSTVS PATER (PATER = father)
PROVIDENT below altar with paneled door, above flames(?)
RIC Tiberius 81. BMC Tiberius 147.
Overstruck on a coin with something like "AESA" close together at 7:00 on the obverse.
Could this be a very well done ancient imitation? If so, it is much better than the 13 illustrated in Banti and Simonetti.
I like the surfaces. Nice. [$125]
ex Vecchi [London] auction 12, lot 1092 (June 5, 1998)
Tiberius
Kingdom of the Bosporus
(Northern Black Sea area)
Aspurgus/Tiberius c. 35-37 AD
Aspurgus right
Bust of Tiberius right, TIBEPIΩY KAΣIAPOΣ legible
22 mm. 9.75 grams.
MacDonald Bosporus 300
[$169]
Claudius, 41-54
Claudius, 41-54 AD.
Roman Alexandria.
26-25 mm.
Good portrait/eagle
[$95, reduced to $69]
Nero (54-68)
[SOLD]
Titus (79-81)
[SOLD]
Domitian, 81-96.
22-18 mm. 2.61 grams. Light weight.
IMP CAE DOMIT AVG GERM PM TRP VII
IMP XXI COS XV CENS P PP
Minerva standing left
BMC reverse of 168, plate 65.2, page 333 "AD 90", but the normal obverse ends TRP VIIII not VII, which is from AD 88.
TRP VII is on obverses of 87 and 88, e.g. RIC 521, but IMP XXI COS XV does not appear there until Sept. 90, page 315, e.g. 692
Extremely rare. Possibly an ancient imitation, but awfully nice for an imitation. [$149, reduced to $129].
ex CNG 61 lot 1774 (part)
Domitian, 81-96.
18 mm. 3.28 grams.
IMP CAES DOMITIAN AVG GERM V
IMP SV COS XIIII CENS ...
Minerva fighting right, owl at feet.
BMC -- for this obverse legend. IMP XV COS XIIII is "second issue" AD 88, page 326, types 129 only, but not with this obverse.
RIC II.1 cf. 592 page 305 for the reverse, but this obverse legend is shorter.
Extremely rare. Possibly an ancient imitation, but awfully nice for an imitation. [$149, reduced to $129].
ex CNG 61 lot 1774 (part)
Domitian, 81-96
18 mm. 3.10 grams.
IMP CAES DOMITIAN AVG PM counterclockwise
IMP XX COS XVI CENS PPP
Minerva standing left with thunderbolt in right and spear in left with shield below.
Cf. BMC 181, page 335, plate 65.9 which has this reverse, but obverse clockwise. The reveres is of 90-91. RIC II.1 Domitian --, reverse as 726 but obverse legend lacks their ending "TRP XI" and reads outwards, a legend of 91, 14 Sept. to 31 Dec.
Extremely rare. Possibly an ancient imitation, but awfully nice for an imitation. [$149, reduced to $129]
ex CNG 61 lot 1774 (part)
Links: Caracalla, Elagablal, Severus Alexander, Gordian III, Philip, Valerian, Gallienus, Gallo-Roman, Claudius II, Aurelian, Probus, Tacitus, Carus and Family
Trajan (98-117)
Hadrian (117-138)
[SOLD]
Antoninus Pius (138-161)
[SOLD]
Faustina II, Diva
as. 28 - 26 mm.
crescent moon and stars.
SC below
RIC III 1714, struck after 176
Nicer than many (compare to vcoins) but notice the pit on the forehead.
[$89, reduced to $55 SOLD]
Third Century:
Septimius Severus
[$59, reduced to $39] Septimius Severus (on right) and Caracalla (on left) at Beruit (Berytus). Two heads!
AE23-22, 8.16 grams. SGI city and obverse of 2301, different reverse.
Poseidon (Neptune) holds dolphin and trident. BER to right.
L&K 2264. BMC Berytus 130. SNG Copenhagen Phoenicia 107. [$59, reduced to $39]
ex Joel Malter XXXIV lot 587 Decemeber 1986 with ticket.
Geta
[sold]
Caracalla 196-198-217
19 mm. 2.78 grams.
Mint at Laodicea ad Mare
MONETA AVGG
Struck 198 as Augustus
RIC Caracalla 337d "Scarce"
Uncommon mint. Neat type. [$95, reduced to $79 SOLD]
Macrinus, 217-218
[sold]
Trebonianus Gallus. A.D. 251-253
[Rare. $65, reduced to $45] Valerian (253-260)
Struck at Heliopolis, Coele-Syria
25-23 mm, thick, 11.70 grams.
agnostic urn on table with ornamental legs
COL HEL
Sear Greek Imperial --
L&K --, Lindgren III 1283variety (legend), Weber --, McClean 9440 variety, BMC Syria --
SNG Copenhagen Syria -- (439 has urn with no table, SNG Righetti --
[$65, reduced to $43] Ex Colosseum Coin Exchange, list of April 1988, lot 106, with ticket.
[$95, reduced to $69] Gallienus, 30 mm.
Struck at Side in Pamphylia
E countermark over the original "IA" at the neck.
E = 5 assaria. Howgego Countermark 805
Sear Greek Imperial --,
von Aulock -- cf, plate 158, volume II for Valerian
L&K 1174 for obverse
SNG Copenhagen VI Pamphlia -- Supplement 523
Weber III --, SNG Righetti 1309 variety
ex Cederlind at $100, his #345 (list date uncertain, maybe 1990s?)
[$75, reduced to $65]
Central Empire, Claudius II (268-270) and later:
For a page of ancient imitations from the third century, see here.
Aurelian usually comes as a radiate, either pre-reform or post reform. He also comes as a scarcer "denarius"--however almost always VICTORIA AVG. Far rarer, offered less than once a year, I think, is this PROVIDEN AVG denarius type.
None on vcoins. None at MA-Shops.
Roma had one, not better, in e-sale 27 for $143 including fees + shipping. CNG had one in 2010 for $185 + 12% + shipping. Elsen had one in 2011 for $207 + fees + shipping.
IMP C AVRELIANVS AVG laureate bust right
PROVIDEN AVG
Providentia standing left holding wand over globe.
RIC 68 very rare type of an unusual denomination. You have seen his "Victory" reverse denarius, but likely not this type [$85]
Probus, 276-282
22-20 mm.
PAX AVG
RIC 706 Siscia. Sear III 12000 [$39] ex Berk in 1994
Probus, 276-282
CONCORDIA AVG
XXI in exergue and VII in the right field
RIC Siscia 661
Sear Roman Coins 11966
[$45]
[sold]
[sold]
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