178, Lot: 188. Estimate $75. Sold for $50. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Licinius I. AD 308-324. Æ Follis (19mm, 2.98 g). Heraclea mint, 2nd officina. Struck AD 318-320. Laureate bust right wearing imperial mantle, holding mappa in left hand, scepter and globe in right / Camp gate; L//SMHB. RIC VII 48 var. (bust left). EF, about 80% silvered, some minor green encrustation.

RIC records the bust as facing left for this variety, but doesn’t illustrate it. Perhaps RIC is in error, or perhaps this is a new variety