CNG 96, Lot: 872. Estimate $5000. Sold for $14000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Constantine I. AD 307/310-337. AV Solidus (20mm, 4.51 g, 12h). Vicennalia issue. Cyzicus mint, 5th officina. Struck AD 324. CONSTANT INVS P F AVG, laureate heroic bust left, seen from behind, wearing baldric and holding ornamented oval shield and spear forward / VICTORIB AVGG ET CAESS NN, Victory seated right on cuirass, holding shield inscribed VOT/XX; to right, trophy with bound captive seated at base; SMKЄ. RIC VII 23; Alföldi, Constantinische 114-5 (for obv.); cf. Elmer, Fund 14 and pl. 2, 3 (for rev.); Bastien, Monnaie, p. 78 and note 9; Depeyrot 16/5 (citing only the Paris specimen); cf. Biaggi 2057 (Crispus; for obv.). Good VF, traces of deposits, die break on nose, scratch on neck. Extremely rare, no examples in CoinArchives or the ANS photofile.

Bruun in RIC cited only two examples: the Paris coin in the BN, also cited by Depeyrot, and one in Belgrade, in the Narodnl muzej Beograd.