Triton XVI, Lot: 1156. Estimate $3000. Sold for $7000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Constantine I. AD 307/310-337. AV Solidus (22mm, 4.47 g, 6h). Tricennalia issue. Nicomedia mint. Struck circa 25 July AD 335. Pearl-and-rosette-diademed head right; diadem ends in three ties / VICTORIA CONSTANTINI AVG, Victory seated right on shield and cuirass, holding wreath inscribed VOT/XXX in two lines; wreath supported from underneath by Cupid standing left: SMNM. RIC VII 176; Alföldi 615; Depeyrot 44/1; Calicó -. EF, flan split at 3 o’clock on obverse, apparently split in the minting process and was closed by another strike at the time.