Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 785. Estimate $50000.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $37500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Procopius. Usurper, AD 365-366. AV Solidus (4.47 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Struck AD 366. D N PROCO-PIVS P F AVG, pearl-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / REPARATI-O FEL TEMP, Procopius, in military dress, standing facing, head right, holding spear in right hand, resting left hand on shield set on ground; CONS. RIC IX 2a; Depeyrot 14/4; Kent & Hirmer pl. 178, 699 (this coin); Cohen 5. EF, toned, faint scratch in obverse field behind head. Extremely rare.

Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 38 (21 March 2007), lot 269; A. Moretti Collection (Numismatic Fine Arts XXII, 1 June 1989), lot 152.