Very Rare Magnentius Siliqua

CNG 97, Lot: 725. Estimate $2000. Sold for $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Magnentius. AD 350-353. AR Siliqua (19mm, 3.42 g, 6h). Treveri (Trier) mint. Struck 27 February-beginning of May AD 350. IM CAE MAGN-ENTIVS AVG, bare-headed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / VIRTVS EXERCITI, Magnentius, wearing helmet and military attire, standing facing, head right, holding inverted spear in right hand and resting left on shield set on ground; TR. RIC VIII 256; Bastien 18; RSC 82†. EF, wonderful, old gray cabinet tone, die break on obverse. Very rare.

Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 78 (26 May 2014), lot 1184; Aureo & Calicó (8 February 2012), lot354.