Sale: CNG 61, Lot: 2155. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 25 September 2002.  Sold For $550. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LEO I. 457-474 AD. AV Solidus (4.39 gm). Struck 468-471 AD. Constantinople mint. Diademed and helmeted three-quarter facing bust, holding spear over right shoulder and shield with horseman motif on left arm / Victory standing left, holding long voided cross; star in right field; I/CONOB. RIC X 630; Depyrot 93/1. EF, overstruck or double struck, with traces of an undertype visible on both sides. ($750)

From the William H. Williams Collection.