CNG 85, Lot: 1219. Estimate $1500. Sold for $3400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Constantine II. AD 337-340. AV Solidus (21mm, 4.34 g, 6h). Vicennalia issue. Constantinople mint. Struck AD 337. Laurel and rosette-diademed head right / Victory seated right on cuirass, behind which is a shield. Victory and small, winged Genius support a shield, inscribed VOT/XX on two lines; CONS. RIC VIII 3; Depeyrot 1/3. Near EF, a pair of minor die breaks on obverse. Rare.

From the Collection of a Northern California Gentleman. Ex Nelson Bunker Hunt Collection (Sotheby’s 6044, 21 June 1990), lot 872.