CNG 99, Lot: 740. Estimate $500. Sold for $320. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Procopius. Usurper, AD 365-366. AR Siliqua (18.5mm, 1.78 g, 12h). Contemporary imitation of a Constantinople mint issue. DN PIIOCO-DIIIS (S retrograde) D E IIIIO, peal-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right, without beard / VOT/V in two lines within wreath; Δ•C (C retrograde). Cf. RIC IX 13e; cf. RSC 14†c (both refs. for type). VF, deeply toned.

From the Jonathan K. Kern Collection.

See the previous lot for the prototype of this unusual coin.