CNG 94, Lot: 1128. Estimate $500. Sold for $1400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Basiliscus. AD 475-476. AV Tremissis (15mm, 1.49 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Pearl-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Victory advancing right, head left, holding wreath and globus cruciger; star to right//CONOB. RIC X 1009; P. Brennan, et al., eds. Faces of Power: Imperial Portraiture on Roman Coins (Sydney, 2007), 126 (this coin); cf. MIRB 5 (for type); cf. Depeyrot 101/2 (same). Near EF, a little striking weakness on revers. Excellent portrait coin for this late emperor.

From the Ronald J. Hansen Collection.