387, Lot: 517. Estimate $200. Sold for $360. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Constantine I. AD 307/310-337. Æ Follis (20mm, 2.76 g, 6h). Constantinople mint, 1st officina. Struck AD 328. Laurel and rosette-diademed head right / CONSTANTINI ANA DAFNE, Victory seated left on cippus, head right, holding palm frond in each hand; to left, bound captive seated left, head right, at base of trophy; A-//CONS. RIC VII –; Speck and Huston 32A; LRBC –. Good VF, black patina. Extremely rare, one of 5 recorded specimens with the anepigraphic obverse.
Ex Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 322 (12 March 2014), lot 622 (hammer $1200); Malcolm W. Heckman Collection (Triton VIII, 11 January 2005), lot 1248; Classical Numismatic Group 35 (20 December 1995), lot 1002.