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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;benhur767, post: 3023666, member: 36818&quot;]These are my oldest provenances. Nowhere near as old as Archbishop Sharp, though!</p><p>[ATTACH=full]752315[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Geta. </b>AR denarius, Rome, 210 CE; 18mm, 3.74g, 6h. BMCRE 68, CRB 86, Hill 1143 (S2), RIC 92, RSC 219 (Cohen, 3 Fr., citing the Gosselin Sale). Obv: P – SEPT GETA – PIVS AVG BRIT; man’s laureate head r., bearded. Rx: VICTORI–AE BRIT; Victory standing l., naked to waist, holding wreath and palm. Commemorates victories declared in Britain. This coin is a reverse die link with the Arnold specimen illustrated in RSC, which I also own. Near VF.</p><p><br /></p><p><u>Provenance:</u> From <i>The Chris Rudd Collection of Bronze Age and Roman Coins</i>, DNW 142 (London), 15 September 2017, lot 1692; ex James T. Joyner Collection, acquired from Paul Withers, Galata Coins (Wolverhampton, UK); ex Eton College Collection (Windsor), Sotheby’s (London), 1–2 December 1976, lot 568 (part); this coin is probably one of the duplicates purchased for Eton College from the British Museum in 1873.</p><p><br /></p><p>------------------------</p><p>[ATTACH=full]752316[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Elagabalus.</b> AR denarius, Rome, 221 CE; 21mm, 3.05g, 12h. BMCRE 242–3, RIC 40, RSC 184. Obv: IMP ANTONINVS PIVS AVG; laureate head r. Rx: P M TR P IIII COS III P P; Sol advancing left, raising right hand, holding whip in l., star in field l. EF.</p><p><br /></p><p><u>Provenance:</u> From the estate of Markus R. Weder (1953–2016); ex collection of Napoléon Joseph Charles Paul Bonaparte (known as Prince Napoléon, 1822–91), and from the duplicates of the British Museum.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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