Triton XIX, Lot: 648. Estimate $2000. Sold for $2850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Valentinian I. AD 364-375. AV Solidus (22mm, 4.41 g, 12h). Consular issue. Thessalonica mint. Struck January AD 365. D N VALENTINI ANVS P F AVG, pearl-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust left, wearing consular robes, holding mappa and scepter / SALVS REI P, Valentinian, diademed and in military attire, standing left, head right, right foot on bound captive to left, holding labarum in right hand and Victory standing left on globe in left; star to right; SMTES. RIC IX 3a1; Depeyrot 30/1; Biaggi 2235. Good VF, light scratch in obverse field.

From the J. Eric Engstrom Collection. Ex Coin Galleries (14 April 1993), lot 396.