Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 778. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $3750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Magnentius. AD 350-353. AR Siliqua (3.09 g, 6h). Treveri (Trier) mint. Struck 27 February-beginning of May AD 350. IM CAE MAGN-ENTIVS AVG, bare-headed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / VIRTVS EXERCITI, Magnentius, wearing helmet and military attire, standing facing, head right, holding inverted spear in right hand and resting left on shield set on ground; TR. RIC VIII 258; Bastien 18; RSC 82. EF, lustrous, traces of deposits. Excellent silver quality. Very rare.

From the Gordon S. Parry Collection. Ex Dr. John Jacobs Collection (Superior, 13 August 1995), lot 986; Numismatic Fine Arts XX (9 March 1988), lot 542.