Jovinus, Usurper

Triton XVIII, Lot: 1267. Estimate $3000. Sold for $3500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Jovinus. Usurper, AD 411-413. AR Siliqua (16mm, 1.59 g, 12h). Arelate (Arles) mint. D N IOVIN VS P F AVC, pearl-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / RESTITV TOR REI P, Roma seated left on curule chair, holding Victory on globe in outstretched right hand and reversed spear in left; KON[T]. RIC X 1721; King, Fifth, p. 290 and pl. 22, 9 (same obv. die); Ferrando 1717 (same rev. die as illustration); RSC 2†b; DOCLR –. Good VF, toned, small hairline flan crack.

From the Jonathan K. Kern Collection. Ex Wayne Philips Collection; Empire Coins 9 (30 April 1988), lot 454.