Triton XX, Lot: 879. Estimate $2000. Sold for $3000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Constantius II. AD 337-361. AV Solidus (21mm, 4.50 g, 6h). Nicomedia mint, 6th officina. Struck AD 351-355. FL IVL CONSTAN TIVS PERP AVG, pearl-diadmed, helmeted, and cuirassed bust facing slightly right, holding spear over shoulder in right hand and shield decorated with horseman motif in left / GLORIA REI PVBLICAE, Roma and Constantinopolis, with right foot on prow and holding scepter in left hand, enthroned facing, holding between them a shield inscribed VOT/XXX/MVLT/XXXX in four lines; SMNς. RIC VIII 74; Depeyrot 5/1; Biaggi 2139. EF. Fine style.

From the Continental Collection.