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 the 20/11/2000 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 mai 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, 26/05/1959 ''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, 29/05/1974, 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.