Extremely Rare Anepigraphic Nine Siliqua

Triton XIV, Lot: 838. Estimate $5000. Sold for $15000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Constantine I. AD 307/310-337. AV Nine Siliqua or 1 1/2 Scripulum (15mm, 1.73 g, 12h). Tricennalia issue. Nicomedia mint. Struck AD 335. Rosette-diademed head right / VICTORIA CONSTANTINI AVG, Victory seated right on shield and cuirass, holding wreath inscribed VOT/XXX in two lines; wreath supported from underneath by Cupid standing left; SMN. RIC VII -; Depeyrot 46/4. EF, minor tooling on edge at 1-2 o'clock on obverse. Extremely rare, only second known. Depeyrot cites one example in Trier.

From the Collection of a Northern California Gentleman.