Extraordinary High Relief

Triton XV, Lot: 1566. Estimate $5000. Sold for $11000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Constantius II. AD 337-361. AV Solidus (20mm, 4.51 g, 6h). Antioch mint, 4th officina. Struck AD 355-361. FL IVL CONSTAN TIVS PERP AVG, pearl-diademed, helmeted, and cuirassed bust facing slightly right, holding spear over shoulder and round shield / GLORIA REI PVBLICAE, Roma, head facing, and Constantinopolis, head left, seated on thrones facing one another, holding between them wreath inscribed VOT/XXX/MVLT/XXXX in four lines; •//•SMANΔ•. RIC VIII 170; Depeyrot 11/1. Superb EF, lustrous, traces of die rust on obverse. High relief portrait.