Sale: Triton VI, Lot: 1167. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Monday, 13 January 2003.  Sold For $2400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LEO I. 457-474 AD. AV Solidus (4.35 gm). AV Solidus (4.35 gm). Thessalonica mint. Struck 462 AD. D N LEO PERPE-T AVG, consular bust left, wearing pearl-diadem and draped in imperial mantle, holding mappa and cruciform sceptre / VICTORI-A AVGGG, Leo seated facing, holding mappa and cruciform sceptre; star in left field; THSOB. RIC X 622 (same obverse die); Depeyrot 58/1; MIRB 13; DOCLR 556. Good VF. Rare. (See color enlargement on plate 19.) ($3000)

From the William H. Williams Collection.