Triton XXI, Lot: 868. Estimate $1500. Sold for $2250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Valens. AD 364-378. AV Nine Siliquae – 1½ Scripulum (15mm, 1.64 g, 6h).
Decennalia issue. Antioch mint. Struck AD 367-368. D N VALENS P F AVG, pearl-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / GLORI AVGVRTORVM (
sic), Victory seated right on cuirass and round shield, holding stylus and shield inscribed VOT/X/MVL/XX in four lines; shield supported by small genius; AN. RIC IX 26.1 var. (rev. legend); DOC –; Depeyrot 36/1; Hunter –; Biaggi 2263. Good VF, small scratch on the reverse. Rare.
From the Douglas O. Rosenberg Collection. Ex Gorny & Mosch 199 (10 October 2011), lot 758; Kastner 4 (27 November 1973), lot 300.