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423, Lot: 422. Estimate $75.
Sold for $70. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

UNCERTAIN GERMANIC TRIBES, Eastern Europe. Pseudo-Imperial coinage. Mid 1st-mid 3rd century AD. Æ Follis (18mm, 2.46 g, 3h). Imitating a Thessalonica mint follis of Constantine I. Struck after AD 318/9. ΛVNI[...]IITИ(retrograde D)VVCVVC, laureate, helmeted, and cuirassed bust right / Legend in four lines consisting mostly of annulets and quadrates; crosses appear in the third line, and the fourth line is a blundered mintmark; all within wreath with large central jewel. Cf. RIC VII 28 (for prototype); cf. Segeev 263 (for type). VF, dark green surfaces.