CNG 96, Lot: 926. Estimate $7500. Sold for $4500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Valentinian III. AD 425-455. AV Solidus (21mm, 4.50 g, 6h). Thessalonica mint. Struck AD 437/8. D N PLA VALENTI NIANVS P F AVG, pearl-diademed, helmeted, draped, and cuirassed bust right / VICTORI A AVGGG, Valentinian standing facing, holding long cross and Victory on globe, foot on human-headed serpent; T-S/COMOB. RIC X –; Depeyrot –; DOCLR –; Tkalec (29 February 2000), lot 453 (same dies); cf. Triton VI, lot 1160 (same obv. die). Good VF, struck with worn dies. Traces of original Ravenna mintmark (R-V [RIC X 2010]) visible under T-S. Second known example.