Sale: Triton V, Lot: 2175. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 January 2002.  Sold For $600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

HANNIBALLIANUS. 335-337 AD. Æ Follis (1.50 gm). Constantinople mint. FL HANNIBALIANO REGI, bare-headed, draped and cuirassed bust right / SE-CVRITAS PVBLICA, river-god Euphrates reclining right; CONSS. RIC VII 147; LRBC 1034. Near EF, brown patina. A very nice example of this type. ($1000)

Hanniballianus was a nephew of Constantine the Great and was given the title of nobilissimus by his uncle. He was appointed prefect of Cappadocia and Armenia, and he governed these provinces with the title of Rex from 335 AD.