Unique Æ Pattern

CNG 93, Lot: 1258. Estimate $5000. Sold for $4500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Commemorative Series. AD 330-354. Æ Pattern of 1½ Solidi (25mm, 6.10 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Struck circa AD 330. CONSTAN TINOPOLI, turreted and draped bust of Constantinopolis left, wearing elaborate neckless / Victory standing facing between two shields set on ground, holding wreath in right hand and palm frond in left; CONS. RIC -; Ntantalia -; Kent -; Gnecchi -. Good VF, dark green patina, some red, minor roughness and smoothing. Unique.

Ex Property of Princeton Economics acquired by Martin Armstrong (Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 271, 11 January 2012), lot 94 (sold for hammer $10,000, but not paid); Numismatica Ars Classica 15 (18 May 1999), lot 489.