436, Lot: 716. Estimate $2000. Sold for $3750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Constantine II. As Caesar, AD 316-337. AV Solidus (21mm, 4.47 g, 6h). Thessalonica mint. Struck AD 335. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / PRINCIPI IVVE NTVTIS, Constantine II, in military dress, standing left, holding vexillum with his right hand and scepter with his left; to right, two signa. RIC VII 209 var. (obv. bust with plain diadem); Depeyrot 16/3 var. (same); Biaggi 2082 var. (same). EF, smoothing on cheek and neck, die break on obverse. Unpublished variant with a laureate versus plain diadem bust type.
Ex Continental Collection (Triton XX, 10 January 2017), lot 871; Gorny & Mosch 117 (14 October 2002), lot 686.