Triton XVI, Lot: 1173. Estimate $7500. Sold for $12000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
|
Constantius Gallus. Caesar, AD 351-354. AV Solidus (21mm, 4.53 g, 1h).
Quinquennalia issue. Nicomedia mint, 3rd officina. Struck AD 354. D N FL CONSTANTIVS NOB CAES, bareheaded, draped, and cuirassed bust right / GLORIA REI PVBLICAE, Roma, facing, and Constantinopolis, left, enthroned, holding between them wreath inscribed VO/TIS/V in four lines; SMANB•. RIC VIII 75; Depeyrot 5/3. In NGC encapsulation graded Ch AU, Strike: 5/5, Surface: 3/5.
Ex Antiqua XVI (undated [2011]), no. 132; Helios I (17 April 2008), lot 590; Berk BBS 117 (28 November 2000), lot 26; Nelson Bunker Hunt Collection (Part II, Sotheby’s, 21 June 1990), lot 883.