CNG 105, Lot: 1011. Estimate $500. Sold for $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Theodosius II. AD 402-450. AV Semissis (18mm, 2.20 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Struck AD 408-430. Pearl-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Victory seated right on cuirass, inscribing XX/XXX in two lines on shield set on knee; star to left, staurogram to right; CONOB. RIC X 223 corr. (rev. type as RIC 210, not 209); Depeyrot 73/4. Good VF, light graffiti in fields.

From the Douglas O. Rosenberg Collection, purchased at 2008 CICF.