Very Rare Rome Mint Issue

Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 1027. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Honorius. AD 393-423. AV Tremissis (1.45 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 404/7-408. D N HONORI-VS P F AVG, pearl-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / VICTORIA AVGVSTORVM, Victory advancing facing, head right, holding wreath in right hand, cross on globe in left; R-M//COM[OB]. RIC X 1259; Depeyrot 36/1; DOCLR 727. Good VF, light graze on obverse. Very rare.

The end of the legend on the reverse extends into the exergue, obscuring the last two letters of the mintmark.