Triton XVIII, Lot: 1255. Estimate $1500. Sold for $4000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Valentinian I. AD 364-375. AV Solidus (21mm, 4.48 g, 6h). Decennalia issue. Antioch mint, 7th officina. Struck AD 373-374. D N VALENTINI ANVS P F AVG, rosette-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / VICTORIA AVGVSTORVM, Victory seated right on cuirass with shield behind, inscribing VOT/X/MVL/XX on shield set on left knee; Christogram in lower right field : PANOBZ. RIC IX 22b (officina unlisted); Depeyrot 40/5 (no examples listed for this officina); DOC –; Hunter –. EF. Previously unknown officina for Valentinian.