435, Lot: 386. Estimate $150. Sold for $320. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Valentinian I. AD 364-375. AV Semissis (17.5mm, 2.19 g, 6h). Nicomedia mint. Struck January-February AD 368. Pearl-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Victory seated right on cuirass, shield to left, inscribing VX on shield set on her knee and supported by Genius to the right; SMN. RIC IX –; Depeyrot 25/1; Biaggi 2246 (same dies); NAC 106, lot 1083 (same dies). VF, wavy flan, a few scrapes. Extremely rare. Only one example listed by Depeyrot.