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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 7881944, member: 75937&quot;]For the past several e-sales, Roma has been auctioning coins from the Antonio Carmona collection. <a href="https://coinsweekly.com/roma-numismatics-e-sale-83/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://coinsweekly.com/roma-numismatics-e-sale-83/" rel="nofollow">According to Coins Weekly</a>, he has been an active member of the Asociación Numismática Española since 1970, and a vocal advocate in defense of legal and educational coin collecting. His collection consisted primarily of bronze coins from throughout the Roman Empire. Unfortunately, he did not record individual provenances but 450 coins were purchased from the collection of Ana Espuny in 2006, and a further 953 were acquired from Almoneda Los Remedios in Malaga, with the remainder being mostly purchased from auction houses such as Áureo &amp; Calicó, Jesus Vico SA, José Herrero SA and others.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Do you have any coins from Antonio Carmona&#039;s collection? Let&#039;s see them! </i></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1359290[/ATTACH]</p><p>Faustina II, AD 147-175.</p><p>Roman Æ as or dupondius, 11.69 g, 26 mm, 12 h.</p><p>Rome, AD 161-163.</p><p>Obv: FAVSTINA AVGVSTA, draped bust, right, and wearing stephane.</p><p>Rev: SALVTI AVGVSTAE S C, Salus seated left, feeding snake coiled round altar from patera in right hand and resting left arm on chair.</p><p>Refs: RIC <a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.3.m_aur.1671" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.3.m_aur.1671" rel="nofollow">1671</a>; BMCRE <a href="https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_R-14362" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_R-14362" rel="nofollow">995</a>; Cohen 201; RCV 5303; MIR 30-7/10a, b diad.</p><p>Notes: Ex Antonio Carmona Collection.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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