CNG 105, Lot: 968. Estimate $500. Sold for $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Licinius I, with Licinius II, Caesar. AD 308-324. Æ Follis (23mm, 4.54 g, 12h). Antioch mint, 7th officina. Struck AD 320-321. D D N N IOVII LICINII INVICT AVG ET CAES, half-length laureate busts of Licinius I, right, and Licinius II, left, each wearing consular robes, holding between them a trophy / I O M ET VIRTVTI D D N N AVG ET CAES, Jupiter standing facing, head left, holding scepter; before him, trophy with two captives seated at base; SMATZ. RIC VII –; Bastien, “Coins with a Double Effigy Issued by Licinius at Nicomedia, Cyzicus, and Antioch,” (Numismatic Chronicle 1973), p. 91, 5. VF, brown surfaces, some roughness. Very rare, Bastien cites only one specimen for officina Z.

From the Collection of a Director. Ex Sternberg VI (25 November 1976), lot 949.

RIC lists this type for Heraclea (RIC VII 50) with the SMHTA mintmark, which may be a misreading of the Antioch mintmark.