Ex Hunt Collection

Sale: CNG 79, Lot: 1253. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 September 2008.  Sold For $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Theodosius I. AD 379-395. AV Solidus (4.38 g, 12h). Constantinople mint. Struck AD 379-383. Rosette-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Constantinopolis seated facing, head right, on lion-headed throne, holding scepter and globe, foot on prow left; Є//CONOB. RIC IX 45d.4; Depeyrot 33/3. Good VF.

From the Gordon S. Parry Collection. Ex Nelson Bunker Hunt Collection (Part IV, Sotheby’s, 19 June 1991), lot 983.