CNG 102, Lot: 1100. Estimate $500. Sold for $475. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Constantius II. AD 337-361. AR Reduced Siliqua (19mm, 2.17 g, 6h). Thessalonica mint. Struck AD 355-361. Pearl-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / SPES REI PVBLICE, Constantius II, helmeted and wearing military attire, standing facing, head left, holding globe and inverted spear; TES. RIC VIII 207; RSC 187. Good VF, toned, a couple of minor metal flaws.

From the estate of Thomas Bentley Cederlind. Ex New York Sale XVII (9 January 2008), lot 222 (hammer $400); Franz Trau Collection (Gilhofer & Ranschburg–A. Hess, 22 May 1935), lot 4245 (includes old collection ticket with notation of ‘Trau 4245’, which is not photographed in the Trau catalog, but the catalog text gives Cohen 187 as the reference, which is correct, but describes the reverse incorrectly as ‘Caesar, Victoria, Schrift im Kranz’).