Ex Bastien Collection

CNG 84, Lot: 1562. Estimate $750. Sold for $3600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Gratian. AD 367-383. AV Solidus (21mm, 4.47 g, 11h). Antioch mint, 6th officina. Struck AD 372. Pearl-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Victory seated right on cuirass, holding round shield inscribed VOT/V/MVL/X in four lines; -/(Christogram)//AN OB ς. RIC IX 21a var. (officina); Depeyrot 38/7. Near EF, light graffito in field on reverse. Extremely rare, with only one other example cited from this officina in Depeyrot.

From the Elliott-Kent Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 55 (13 September 2000), lot 1467; Pierre Bastien Collection (Münzen und Medaillen 61, 7 October 1982), lot 522.