455, Lot: 371. Estimate $500. Sold for $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Valens. AD 364-378. AV Solidus (21mm, 4.34 g, 7h). Nicomedia mint. Struck AD 367. Pearl-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Emperor standing facing, head right, holding labarum and crowning Victory on globe; SMNM. RIC IX 2d.6; Depeyrot 18/3. Edge clipped. Near EF.
From the Jack A. Frazer Collection. Ex Justice Frederic Rockwell Sanborn Collection (Sotheby Parke Bernet, 24 February 1977), lot 105 (his collection ticket included).