Rare Contorniate

319, Lot: 568. Estimate $150. Sold for $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Contorniates. Late 4th-early 5th century AD. Æ Contorniate (43mm, 31.58 g, 6h). Struck in the name of Honorius. HONORIO AVGVSTO, pearl-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / [ARTEMI VINCAS INVNDATOR PENNA, charioteer in facing quadriga]. Alföldi, Kontorniat 450.9 (same obv. die, with rev. smoothed down). VF, reddish–brown and green patina, reverse smoothed in antiquity. Rare.