Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 1010. Estimate $2500.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Valens. AD 364-378. AV Solidus (4.41 g, 6h). Nicomedia mint. Struck AD 368. D N VALENS P F AVG, pearl-diademed bust left, wearing imperial mantle, holding mappa in right hand, scepter in left / VOTA PV-BLICA, Valentinian and Valens seated facing, each nimbate, and holding mappa and short scepter; in exergue, bound captives kneeling facing one another; S-(MN)-I. RIC IX 16(b).5; Depeyrot 22/2; DO 219-20 var. (mintmark). EF.

From a North American Collection. Ex Triton VII (13 January 2004), lot 1054; Dürr-Michel (8 November 1999), lot 49; Leu 7 (9 May 1973), lot 447.