Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 1047. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Leo I. AD 457-474. AV Solidus (4.48 g, 6h). Constantinople mint, 9th officina. Struck AD 457-473. D N LEO PE-RPET AVG, pearl-diademed, helmeted, and cuirassed bust facing slightly right, holding spear in right hand, on left arm a shield decorated with horseman spearing an enemy below / VICTORI-A AVGGG, Victory standing left, holding long cross in right hand; star in right field; Q//CONOB. RIC X 605; MIRB 3; Depeyrot 93/1; DOCLR 528. EF, thin die break in field on obverse.

From a North American Collection. Ex Sotheby’s Zurich (27 October 1993) [Athena Fund Sale], lot 1841.