Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 796. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Leo I. AD 457-474. AV Solidus (4.48 g, 6h). Constantinople mint, 5th officina. D N LEO PE-RPET AVG, pearl-diademed, helmeted, and cuirassed bust facing slightly right, holding spear in right hand, on left arm a shield decorated with horseman spearing an enemy below / VICTORI-A AVGGG, Victory standing left, holding long cross in right hand; star to right; Є//CONOB. RIC X 605; MIRB 3; Depeyrot 93/1; DOCLR 524. EF, lustrous, a little die wear on reverse.