167, Lot: 198. Estimate $150. Sold for $391. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Hannibalianus. Rex Regum, AD 335-337. Æ Reduced Follis (15mm, 1.65 g). Constantinople mint. Bare-headed, draped and cuirassed bust right / Euphrates reclining right, leaning on sceptre; water from upturned urn at side flowing beneath; reed in background; CONSS. RIC VII 148; LRBC 1034. VF, dark green patina.

Hanniballianus, the nephew of Constantine, was given the title of King of Armenia, Pontus and Cappadocia rather that the normal office of Caesar. He was murdered in the power struggle that ensued after the death of Constantine in 337.