Exceptional and Extremely Rare

Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 999. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $2600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Crispus. Caesar, AD 316-326. Æ Follis (3.11 g, 12h). Treveri (Trier) mint, 2nd officina. Struck AD 323. IVL CRISPVS NOB CAES, laureate, draped, and cuirassed half-length bust left, with right hand holding horse by bridle, and left hand holding spear over shoulder, shield on left arm / BEATA TRAN-QVILLITAS, globe set on altar inscribed VO/TIS/XX in three lines; three stars above; -/-//•STR(crescent). RIC VII -; Triton III, lot 1202 (same obv. die); otherwise unpublished. Good VF, gray-brown patina. Extremely rare.