69, Lot: 151. Estimate $100. Sold for $381. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

FAUSTA, wife of Constantine I. Æ Follis (19mm, 3.07 gm). Constantinople mint. Struck 326 AD. Bare-headed and mantled bust right / Salus standing facing, head left, holding two infants in arms; A/CONS. RIC VII 12; LRBC 976. EF, black patina, light porosity on reverse. Very rare. 

Ex Classical Numismatic Group 35 (20 September 1995), lot 993.

The coins of Fausta and Crispus from the mint of Constantinople are rare, since both were killed in late 326 AD, shortly after the mint began operation.