Triton XXI, Lot: 869. Estimate $5000. Sold for $8000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Aelia Eudoxia. Augusta, AD 400-404. AV Solidus (21mm, 4.48 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Struck AD 400/1. AEL EVDO XIA AVG, rosette-diademed and draped bust right;
manus Dei above, crowning her / SALVS REI PVBLICAE, Victory seated right on cuirass, inscribing Christogram on shield set on column; CONOB. RIC X 12; MIRB –; DOCLR 273; Depeyrot 55/4; Biaggi –. Near EF, a few light field marks, traces of underlying luster. Very rare.
Ex Gorny & Mosch 215 (13 October 2015), lot 609; Hess-Divo 317 (27 October 2010), lot 950.