Triton XIV, Lot: 856. Estimate $1500. Sold for $4250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Valens. AD 364-378. AV Solidus (21mm, 4.45 g, 12h). Antioch mint, 8th officina. Struck AD 373-374. D N VALENS PER F AVG, rosette-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / GLORIA R O MANORVM, Roma, helmeted, and Constantinopolis, turreted, seated on throne, Roma facing, Constantinopolis turning head towards Roma, each holding a scepter in their left hands, and with right, holding between them an oval shield inscribed VOT/X/MVL/XX; Christogram above; KANOBH. RIC IX 16d var. (unlisted mintmark); Depeyrot 41/1 (unrecorded officina). EF. Extremely rare.
Ex Helios I (17 April 2008), lot 607.