Triton XX, Lot: 872. Estimate $7500. Sold for $10000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Constantine II. AD 337-340. AV Solidus (21mm, 4.52 g, 12h). Tricennalia issue. Siscia mint. Struck AD 337-340. CONSTANTI NVS P F AVG, pearl-and-rosette-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / VICTORIA CONSTANTINI AVG, Victory advancing right, holding a shield inscribed VOT/XXX in two lines, her left foot on a bound and seated captive right, wearing a pointed cap; •SIS•. RIC VIII 4 var. (laurel-and-rosette-diadem); Depeyrot 3/2 var. (same); Bastien, Monnaie, p. 82, a/note 5; Biaggi –. EF, toned, some hairlines. Very rare.

From the Continental Collection. Ex Münzen und Medaillen AG 86 (3 June 1998), lot 209.

Struck early in Constantine II’s reign, this rare solidus uses a reverse type of his father's. At the time of his death, Constantine I had recently celebrated thirty years as emperor, and Constantine II twenty years as Caesar. The elder Constantine had also successfully reconquered Dacia by 336, a province that was relinquished under Aurelian sixty years before.