CNG 100, Lot: 1966. Estimate $1500. Sold for $1380. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Valens. AD 364-378. AV Solidus (21mm, 4.44 g, 5h). Antioch mint, 4th officina. Struck AD 373-374. D N VALENS P F AVG, pearl-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Seated figures of Roma and Constantinopolis, the latter with right foot on prow, each holding scepter and supporting between them a shield inscribed VOT/X/MVLT/XX; Christogram above; ANOBΔ. RIC IX 16c.1 var. (obv. legend); Depeyrot 38/4 var. (same). Near EF, a couple of cleaning marks on obverse. Possibly an unpublished legend variant.