CNG 100, Lot: 1967. Estimate $1000. Sold for $2750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Valentinian II. AD 375-392. AV Solidus (21mm, 4.46 g, 1h). Constantinople mint, 9th officina. Struck AD 388-392. Pearl-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Constantinopolis seated facing, head right, on throne with lion heads, right foot set on prow, holding scepter and globe; Θ//CONOB. RIC IX 67a var. (unrecorded officina); Depeyrot 46/2. In NGC encapsulation, graded MS, Strike 5/5, Surface 4/5.
Ex Andre Constantine Dimitriadis Collection (Heritage, 10 April 2014), lot 23707 (incorrect references); Sotheby's New York (9 December 1993), lot 600.