370, Lot: 522. Estimate $1000. Sold for $2000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Constantius II. AD 337-361. AV Solidus (21mm, 4.38 g, 6h). Aquileia mint. Struck AD 352-355. Pearl-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Roma enthroned facing and Constantinopolis enthroned left, foot on prow, holding scepter, holding between them a shield inscribed VOT/ XXX/ MVLT/ XXXX in four lines; SMAQ. RIC VIII 179; Depeyrot 9/1. Good VF, lightly toned, light scrape across Constantinopolis’ face on the reverse.

From the J. Eric Engstrom Collection. Ex Coin Galleries (14 April 1993), lot 392; Knobloch Collection (Stack’s, 5 May 1984), lot 1331.