Triton XVII, Lot: 800. Estimate $1000. Sold for $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Constantius II. AD 337-361. AV Solidus (22mm, 4.52 g, 12h). Nicomedia mint, 3rd officina. Struck AD 351-355. FL IVL CONSTAN TIVS PERP AVG, pearl-diadmed, helmeted, and cuirassed bust facing slightly right, holding spear over shoulder in right hand and shield decorated with horseman motif in left / GLORIA REI PVBLICAE, Roma, helmeted and draped, seated facing, holding spear in left hand, and Constantinopolis, turreted and draped, seated left, holding scepter in left hand and resting right foot on prow; they support between them a shield inscribed VOT/XXX/MVLT/XXXX in four lines; SMNT. RIC VIII 74; Depeyrot 5/2. Near EF, tiny mark on cheek, traces of deposits.