Extremely Rare Type

236, Lot: 511. Estimate $100. Sold for $225. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Procopius. Usurper, AD 365-366. Æ (17mm, 1.81 g, 6h). Constantinople mint, 2nd officina. Pearl-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / SECVRITAS REIPVB, Procopius standing facing, head right, holding labarum and grounded shield; Christogram to upper right, uncertain object by left foot; CONSB. RIC IX -; LRBC -. Fine, brown surfaces, light roughness, irregular edge. Apparently a new reverse type for Procopius.