Two Very Rare Issues of Constantine III

CNG 84, Lot: 1575. Estimate $6000. Sold for $5500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Constantine III. AD 407-411. AV Solidus (21mm, 4.41 g, 12h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. 1st emission, AD 407-408. D N CONSTAN TINVS P F AVG, laurel-and-rosette-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / VICTORIA AAAVGGGG, Constantine standing right, holding labarum and Victory on globe, with foot on captive to lower right; L/D//COMOB. RIC X 1505; Lyon 244; Depeyrot 20/3. VF. Very rare, with only nine examples cited in Lyon, and only four from these dies.