CNG 111, Lot: 816. Estimate $1500. Sold for $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Valens. AD 364-378. AV Solidus (20.5mm, 4.45 g, 12h). Treveri (Trier) mint, 2nd officina. Struck mid-AD 373-April AD 375. Pearl-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Valentinian I and and Valens seated facing, each holding with right hand a globe between them; above, Victory facing with wings spread; palm frond upright on exergual line between; TROBC. RIC IX 39a1; Depeyrot 45/1. EF, lustrous, minor marks on obverse.
From the Brexit Collection. Ex Pierre Bastien Collection, privately purchased from Münzen und Medaillen AG in 1965.