CNG 88, Lot: 1452. Estimate $1000. Sold for $2200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Valentinian III. AD 425-455. AV Semissis (18mm, 2.21 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Struck AD 425-430. Pearl-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Victory seated right on cuirass and shield, inscribing wreath XX/XXX; star to left, Chi-Rho to right; CONOB. RIC X 247; Hahn 41; Depeyrot 73/5. EF, light graffiti in field on obverse, minor wave in flan. Very rare.
Ex White Mountain Collection (Triton XIII, 5 January 2010), lot 433; UBS 49 (11 September 2000), lot 682.