CNG 105, Lot: 992. Estimate $750. Sold for $1400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Valens. AD 364-378. AV Solidus (21mm, 4.48 g, 5h). Decennalia issue. Antioch mint, 7th officina. Struck AD 372. Rosette-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Roma and Constantinopolis, with right foot on prow and holding scepter in left hand, enthroned facing, holding between them a shield inscribed VOT/X/MVL/XX in four lines; Christogram above; ANOBZ. RIC IX 16d.4; Depeyrot 38/3. EF, toned, minor deposits.