Triton XIV, Lot: 859. Estimate $2500. Sold for $5500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Gratian. AD 367-383. AV Nine Siliqua or 1½ Scripulum (16mm, 1.71 g, 12h). Constantinople mint. Struck circa AD 374. D N GRATIA NVS P F AVG, pearl-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / VICTORIA D N AVG, Victory advancing left, holding wreath in outstretched right hand and cradling palm frond in left arm; CONS. Cf. RIC IX 7 (Valens); cf. Depeyrot 18/1 (Valens). EF, light scratches in reverse field. Unpublished and apparently unique.
Ex William H. Williams Collection (Triton VI, 14 January 2003), lot 1118; Berk BBS 111 (28 October 1999) lot 39.