“VALEODOSIVS”

Sale: CNG 79, Lot: 1251. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 September 2008.  Sold For $500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Valentinian II. AD 375-392. Æ 18mm (2.31 g, 5h). Antioch mint, 3rd officina. Struck AD 379-383. D N VALEODO-SIVS P F AVG, pearl-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / CONCOR-DIA AVGGG, Constantinopolis seated facing, head right, holding scepter and globe, foot on prow left; Θ-Φ/K//ANTΓ. Cf. RIC IX 47c.4 and 47d.4. VF, black patina, faint die break on obverse. An unusual engraver’s error, the conflation of the names of two emperors.

From the Gordon S. Parry Collection. Ex Berk 110 (8 September 1999), lot 702.