CNG 111, Lot: 809. Estimate $1500. Sold for $950. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Constantius II. AD 337-361. AV Solidus (21mm, 4.50 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 and shield decorated with horseman motif / Roma, holding spear and head facing, and Constantinopolis, head left, holding scepter and foot on prow, seated on thrones facing one another, holding between them wreath inscribed VOT/ XXX/ MVLT/ XXXX in four lines; SMNT. RIC VIII 74; Depeyrot 5/2. Good VF, toned, area of light edge smoothing.