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244, Lot: 479. Estimate $150.
Sold for $195. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Hanniballianus. Rex Regum, AD 335-337. Æ (16mm, 1.28 g, 12h). Constantinople mint, 6th officina. Struck AD 336-337. Bareheaded, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Euphrates reclining right, leaning upon scepter; reed behind, urn below from which water flows; CONSς. RIC VII 148; LRBC 1034. VF, lightly smoothed, patina appears to be touched up in places.


Hanniballianus, the nephew of Constantine, was given the title of King of Armenia, Pontus, and Cappadocia rather that the normal office of Caesar. He was murdered in the power struggle that ensued after the death of Constantine in 337.