422, Lot: 613. Estimate $200. Sold for $700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Constantius II. AD 337-361. Fourrée Solidus (22mm, 4.21 g, 6h). Copying an issue of the Nicomedia mint, 6th officina, from circa AD 351-355. Pearl-diadmed, helmeted, and cuirassed bust facing slightly right, holding spear and shield / Roma and Constantinopolis, with right foot on prow and holding scepter in left hand, enthroned facing, holding between them a shield inscribed VOT/XXX/MVLT/XXXX in four lines; SMNS. Cf. RIC VIII 74; cf. Depeyrot 5/1. Good VF, some scattered marks, plating revealed in several areas around edge.