Unique Biaggi Solidus

Triton XIX, Lot: 619. Estimate $50000. Sold for $47500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Constantine I. AD 307/310-337. AV Solidus (21mm, 4.28 g, 6h). Heraclea mint. Struck circa AD 326-329/30. Diademed head right, gazing upward; diadem decorated with series of parallel lines, each angles left from the top to the bottom of the band / CONSTANTINVS MAX AVG, pair of interlaced laurel wreaths, each with large central jewel; eight-rayed star above; SMH •. RIC VII –, but cf. 497 and 108 (Trier and Nicomedia respectively; for type) ; Calicó –; cf. Depeyrot, p. 116 (citing an imitative issue of Constans as Caesar with the same mintmark); Biaggi 1961 (this coin). Choice EF, traces of underlying luster. Apparently unique.

Ex Leo Biaggi de Blasys Collection, 1961.