First at Auction in Nearly Fifty Years

CNG 96, Lot: 876. Estimate $2000. Sold for $2633. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Valentinian I. AD 364-375. AV Solidus (18mm, 2.16 g, 12h). Antioch mint, 2nd officina. Struck AD 367. D N VALENTINI ANVS P F AVG, pearl-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / VIRTVS AV GVSTI, Valentinian standing right, foot placed on bound captive, holding labarum and Victory on globe; CONS. RIC IX –; Depeyrot 19/1 corr. (mintmark); Ciani & Vinchon (6 May 1955), lot 473 (same dies). Near EF, light scratches. Second known and the first to appear at auction in almost fifty years.