CNG 112, Lot: 673. Estimate $3000. Sold for $2200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Theodosius II. AD 402-450. AV Solidus (21mm, 4.42 g, 6h). Quindecennalia issue. Constantinople mint. Struck AD 415. D N THEODO SIVS P F AVG, diademed, helmeted, and cuirassed bust right, holding forward spear and shield decorated with horseman motif / GLORIA REI PVBLICAE, Roma and Constantinopolis enthroned facing, the latter with right foot on prow, each holding scepter in outer hand, holding between them a shield inscribed VOT/ XV/ MVL/ XX in four lines; star in left field; CONOB. RIC X 207; MIRB 5; Depeyrot 61/1; Biaggi –; Jameson –; Mazzini –. Lustrous. Choice EF.

Ex Phil Peck (“Morris”) Collection; Triton V (15 January 2002), lot 2215 and color plate 11.

Though quite unmilitary in character, the East Roman Emperor Theodosius II is shown here armed and accoutered for battle. The profile portrait, unusual for the Constantinople mint, was produced on the occasion of the young emperor’s fifteenth anniversary in power.