Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 371. Estimate $750. Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010. Sold For $500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Constantius I. As Caesar, AD 293-305. Æ Follis (8.57 g, 12h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint, 2nd officina. Struck circa AD 301-303. VIRTVS CONSTANTI NOB C, laureate, helmeted, and cuirassed bust left, holding spear in right hand over shoulder and oval shield in left / 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 174; Lyon 221. Good VF, brown patina. Very rare bust type and obverse legend.
From the White Mountain Collection.