CNG 96, Lot: 929. Estimate $300. Sold for $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Marcian. AD 450-457. AV Semissis (18mm, 2.19 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Pearl-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Victory seated right on cuirass, inscribing +/XX•XV in two lines on shield set on knee; star and shield to left, staurogram to right; CONOB. RIC X 514 var. (no pellet in mintmark); Depeyrot 88/1 var. (same). VF, wavy flan, tiny punch mark on obverse, a few minor scratches, traces of deposits.

From the Bramhall Collection. Ex Anton C. R. Dreesmann Collection (Spink, 13 July 2000), lot 341; Sternberg VIII (16 November 1978), lot 751.