233, Lot: 497. Estimate $500. Sold for $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Marcian. AD 450-457. AV Solidus (21mm, 4.46 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Diademed, helmeted, and cuirassed bust facing slightly right, holding spear over shoulder and shield decorated with horseman / Victory standing left, holding long voided cross; star in right field; CONOB. RIC X 509; Depeyrot 87/1. EF.

From the Elliot-Kent Collection. Ex Willis Collection (Glendining’s, 6 June 1991), lot 715.