Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 370. Estimate $500. Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010. Sold For $475. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Constantius I. As Caesar, AD 293-305. Æ Follis (8.56 g, 1h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint, 2nd officina. Struck circa AD 301-303. CONSTANTIVS NOB CAES, laureate bust left, wearing lion skin tied at neck, holding club in right hand over shoulder / GENIO POPVLI ROMANI, Genius standing left holding in extended right hand patera from which liquor flows and cradling cornucopia in draped left arm; lighted altar (Great Altar of Lugdunum) to left; -B//PLG. RIC VI 147; Lyon 215. Near EF, brown patina. Rare bust type.
From the White Mountain Collection. Ex Numismatic Fine Arts [24] (18 October 1990), lot 1776.