A Collection of Maundy Money - St James's Auctions

921 Diva Faustina Senior, wife of Antoninus Pius (died AD 141), aureus, bust r., rev. AVGVSTA,Fortuna standing l., holding patera and rudder, wt. 7.02gms. (S.4556; RIC.357a), high pointssomewhat rubbed, very fine £900-1000922 Marcus Aurelius (AD 161-180), aureus, Rome (AD 161), laureate and cuirassed bust r., rev.CONCORDIA AVGVSTOR TR P XV COS III, Marcus Aurelis and Lucius Verus standingfacing clasping hands, wt. 7.11gms. (RIC.7), nearly very fine £800-900923 Fourth century solidi (4), Constans II (AD 337-361) (2), Nicomedia, Rome; Valens (AD 364-378), Thessalonika; Valentinian II (AD 375-392), Rome, some clipping and surface scratches,generally fine (4) £550-600Byzantine924 925924 Maurice Tiberius (AD 582-602), solidus, Constantinople, facing bust holding globus cruciger,rev. VICTORIA AVGG I, Angel standing, wt. 4.47gms. (S.478), extremely fine £180-220925 Romanus III, Argyrus (AD 1028-1034), histamenon nomisma, legend around Christenthroned facing, wearing nimbus cr., pallium and colobium and raising r. hand inbenediction, in l. hand, book of Gospels, double border, rev. legend around the Virginnimbate r. and Romanus, bearded, on l., both stg. facing, the virgin wears pallium andmaphorium, and with her r. hand crowns the emperor, who wears saccos and loros, andholds globus cruciger. in l., between their heads (Sear 1819), very fine £125-150