CNG 88, Lot: 1431. Estimate $1500. Sold for $5000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Constans. AD 337-350. AV Solidus (21mm, 4.44 g, 6h). Antioch mint, 9th officina. Struck AD 347-350. FL IVL CONS TANS PERP AVG, pearl-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / GLORIA REI PVBLICAE, Roma seated facing and Constantinopolis seated half-left, foot on prow, each holding scepter, supporting shield between them inscribed VOT/XX/MVLT/XXX in four lines; SMANΘ. RIC VIII -; Depeyrot 6/6. Good VF. Extremely rare, one of perhaps two known examples of this issue from Antioch, the other from officina S.

Ex Leu 91 (10 May 2004), lot 703.