Unpublished Shield Ornamentation

Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 1029. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $2500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Honorius. AD 393-423. AV Solidus (4.45 g, 6h). Thessalonica mint. Struck AD 408-420. D N HONORI-VS P F AVG, pearl-diademed, helmeted, and cuirassed bust facing slightly right, holding spear in right hand, on left arm a shield decorated with palm and Victory standing left, holding wreath / CONCORDI-A AVGG, Constantinopolis enthroned facing, head right, right foot on prow, holding scepter in right hand, Victory on globe in left; star to left; COMOB. RIC X 349/50 var. (different Victory ornament); Metcalf, Thess. 21 = MIRB 55b var. (Victory on prow); Depeyrot 47/1; DOCLR 785 var. (no palm on shield). Good VF, underlying luster. Struck on a broad flan. Very rare issue, unpublished with this shield ornamentation.