Triton XXI, Lot: 863. Estimate $3000. Sold for $6500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Constantius II. AD 337-361. AV Solidus (22mm, 4.47 g, 6h). Consular issue. Rome mint, 1st officina. Struck AD 357. FL IVL CONSTAN TIVS PERP AVG, pearl-diademed bust left, wearing consular robes and holding mappa in right hand / FELICITAS RO MANORVM, Roma and Constantinopolis, with right foot on prow and holding scepter in left hand, enthroned facing, holding between them a shield inscribed VOT/XXXV/MVLT/XXXX in four lines; RSMP(palm). RIC VIII 298; DOC 90 var. (officina); Depeyrot 15/3; Biaggi 2133 var. (officina). Superb EF, lustrous. Very rare.

Ex Malcolm W. Heckman Collection (Triton VIII, 11 January 2005), lot 1255.