Triton XX, Lot: 886. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Valens. AD 364-378. AV Solidus (21mm, 4.48 g, 12h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck AD 365. D N VALEN S P F AVG, pearl-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / RESTITVTOR REIPVBLICAE, Valens standing facing, head right, holding labarum with his right hand and Victory on globe in his left hand; SMLVG. RIC IX 1c.1; Lyon 6; Depeyrot 10/2; Biaggi –. EF, a couple light scratches on the reverse.

From the Continental Collection. Ex Spink Taisei Zürich 41 (30 April 1992), lot 93.