415, Lot: 516. Estimate $500. Sold for $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Constantius II. AD 337-361. AV Solidus (22mm, 4.49 g, 12h). Tricennalia issue. Nicomedia mint, 3rd officina. Struck AD 351-355. Pearl-diademed, helmeted, and cuirassed bust facing slightly right, holding spear over shoulder with right hand and shield decorated with horseman motif with left / Roma seated facing, holding spear with left hand, and Constantinopolis seated left, holding scepter with left hand and resting foot on prow, supporting between them a shield inscribed VOT/XXX/MVLT/XXXX in four lines; SMNT. RIC VIII 74; Depeyrot 5/2. VF, graffiti in obverse field.

From the D. Massey Collection. Ex Elsen 103 (12 December 2009), lot 300.