IOVI CONSERVATORI


Reference : AYC #15, RIC 13
Weight: 9.00 grs
Metal: Bronze
Diameter: 30.00 mm
Scarcity: Very rare
Type:

Obverse

Reverse

IMP CAES D CAEL BALBINVS AVG

Radiate, draped and cuirassed bust of Balbinus to the right, seen from three quarters ahead.

IOVI CONSERVATORI / S – C

Jupiter draped, standing left, holding thunderbolt with the right hand and a scepter with the left hand.

Photo of a coin sold on 20 November 2000 by Numismatik Lanz München, Auction 100, lot 228, link to the sale: https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=74213, link to their website: https://www.lanz.com/.

i note that it is the copy sold in the sale: ''Adolph Hess, 9 may 1932. catalog 211, Römische Münzen Sammlungen Frederick A. Walters und Percy H. Webb. Luzern.'' lot 2395, collection Percy H.Webb. Here is the photo:

Photo from the catalog quoted above, with kind permission of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, link to Gallica for download the catalog: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k98145267. Resold in the sale: Glendining, 26 May 1959 ''Catalog of part VII of the Celebrated Collection of Coins formed by the late Richard Ciryl Lockett'', lot 162. then resold in the sale: Bank Leu AG, Auktion 10, 29 May 1974, lot 304.

This coin shares the same dies as the coin preserved at the British museum, Museum number R.16574, link to the coin: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_R-16574. Very worn dies, we observe a die blockage on the letter C of CONSERVATORI on the reverse and breaks.