CNG 84, Lot: 1556. Estimate $1000. Sold for $2500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Procopius. Usurper, AD 365-366. AR Siliqua (18mm, 1.76 g, 6h). Constantinople mint, 4th officina. Pearl-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / VOT/V in two lines; all within wreath; ·C·Δ. RIC IX 13e.12; RSC 14†d. Good VF. Very rare.

From the Elliott-Kent Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 58 (19 September 2001), lot 1384.

A fascinating coin that is overstruck on a siliqua of Constantius II from Antioch. On the obverse, one can identify the following: 1) above Procopius' head is the bottom of Constantius' bust and his left shoulder, 2) above IVS P F, on the very edge of the coin, you can read D N CONS. On the reverse you can identify the following: 1) under VOT V and within the wreath you can make out VOTIS XX MVLTIS XXX, shifted slightly to the left and starting under the left side of the wreath, 2) below the mint mark, almost off the flan, is the remains of the original mint mark ·ANT[·]. The host coin, RIC VIII 184, was struck between AD 355 and 361.