451, Lot: 426. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Constantius II. AD 337-361. AV Solidus (21mm, 4.40 g, 6h). Tricennalia issue. Nicomedia mint, 1st officina. Struck AD 351-355. FL IVL CONSTAN TIVS PERP AVG, pearl-diademed, helmeted, and cuirassed bust facing slightly right, holding spear over shoulder and shield decorated with horseman motif / GLORIA REI PVBLICAE, 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; SMNP. RIC VIII 74; Depeyrot 5/2. Fully lustrous, some hairlines on obverse, edge scrape, slight wave to flan. Choice EF.