Important Dynastic Issue

Triton XXI, Lot: 859. Estimate $5000. Sold for $8500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Constantine I, with Constantine II and Constantius II Caesars. AD 307/310-337. AR Miliarense (23.5mm, 4.34 g, 6h). Nicomedia mint. Struck AD 326/7. CONSTANTINVS MAX AVG, pearl-diademed and cuirassed bust right / FELICITAS ROMANORVM, Constantine with sons, Constantius II to left, Constantine II to right, each holding long scepter, standing beneath arched pavilion; SMN. RIC VII 142 var. (bust type); Gnecchi –; Ramskold & Gautier 41 (this coin referenced and illustrated); RSC –. EF, areas of light toning, a couple of small hairline flan cracks. Extremely rare.

Ex Gorny & Mosch 159 (8 October 2007), lot 475 (there misattributed to Constantinople).