Sale: Triton VI, Lot: 1098. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Monday, 13 January 2003.  Sold For $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CONSTANTIUS II. 337-361 AD. AV Solidus (4.65 gm). Sirmium mint. Struck 353-355 AD. FL IVL CONSTAN-TIVS PERP AVG, diademed, helmeted, and cuirassed three-quarter facing bust, holding spear over right shoulder and shield decorated with horseman spearing enemy / GLORIA REI-PVBLICAE, Roma and Constantinopolis enthroned, the former facing, the latter turned to the left, supporting between them shield inscribed VOT/XXX/MVLT/XXXX in four lines; Roma holds spear, Constantinopolis holds sceptre and rests right foot on prow; *SIRM*. RIC VIII 8; Depeyrot 6/1; Cohen 112. Lustrous EF, a few light marks. ($1500) 

rom the William H. Williams Collection. Ex Freeman and Sear Fixed Price List 6 (Summer 2001), lot F166. 

Struck in commemoration of Constantius' tricennalia, the coins of this issue represent one of the earlier types displaying the three-quarter facing bust style that became prevalent in the eastern Roman empire and continued into the Byzantine period.