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Triton XVIII, Lot: 1361. Estimate $1500.
Sold for $2500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

UNCERTAIN GERMANIC TRIBES, Pseudo-Imperial coinage. Mid to Late 4th century AD. AV Solidus (22mm, 4.63 g, 6h). Imitating Treveri (Trier) mint tricennalia issue solidus of Constantius II. D N CONSTAN TIVS P F AVG, pearl-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / GLORIA REI PVBLICAE, Roma and Constantinopolis seated on thrones facing one another, holding between them wreath inscribed VOT/XXX/MVLT/XXXX in four lines; TR. Cf. RIC VIII 340 (for type); cf. Depeyrot 15/3 (same) and 16 note (for imitations of that type). Good VF, minor areas of weak strike. Rare.


From the collection of the MoneyMuseum, Zurich. Ex Leu 72 (12 May 1998), lot 528.