Ex Biaggi Collection

Triton XIX, Lot: 616. Estimate $50000. Sold for $35000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Constantine I. AD 307/310-337. AV Solidus (18mm, 4.43 g, 6h). Treveri (Trier) mint. Struck AD 312-313. CONSTAN TINVS P F AVG, laureate head right / FELICITAS REI PVBLICAE, Constantine seated left on curule chair set on high ornamented daïs; behind, two soldiers, each holding spear; to left at ground level, three figures kneeling right in supplication with hands raised; PTR. RIC VI 810; Calicó –; Depeyrot 17/2; Biaggi 1968 (this coin). EF, toned, some light scratches in fields. Very rare.

Ex Leo Biaggi de Blasys Collection, 1968; A. Hess Lucerne (9 May 1951), lot 277.