Extremely Rare Variety

200, Lot: 333. Estimate $200. Sold for $275. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Leo I. AD 457-474. AV Tremissis (14mm, 1.29 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Struck AD 462-466. Pearl-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Victory advancing right, head right, holding wreath in right hand and globus cruciger in left hand; star in right field; CONOB. RIC X 611 var. (Victory's head right); Depeyrot 93/3 var. (same). VF, light bumps and scratches. Extremely rare, possibly an unpublished variety with Victory looking right.

From the Norman Frank Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 51 (15 September 1999), lot 1545.