294, Lot: 801. Estimate $500. Sold for $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Valens. AD 364-378. AV Solidus (20mm, 3.89 g, 12h). Nicomedia mint, 5th officina. Struck AD 368. Pearl-diademed bust left, wearing imperial mantle, holding mappa in right hand, scepter in left / Valentinian I and Valens seated facing, each nimbate and holding mappa and short scepter; in exergue, bound captives kneeling facing one another; S-MN-Є. RIC IX 16(b).3; Depeyrot 22/2. VF, clipped, scratches on obverse. Rare.