Sale: CNG 67, Lot: 1774. Estimate $2000. Closing Date: Wednesday, 22 September 2004. Sold For $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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COMMEMORATIVE SERIES. 337-354 AD. Æ Medallion (32mm, 19.12 gm). Rome mint. Struck 340-350 AD. VRBS ROMA, draped bust of Constantinopolis left, wearing laureate crested helmet and necklace / Wolf to left, suckling Romulus and Remus; two stars above. RIC VII 349; RIC VIII 391; F. Ntantalia,
Bronzemedallions unter Konstantin dem grossen und seinen söhnen, Series C, 106 (V77/R72); J.P.C. Kent, "Urbs Roma and Constantinopolis Medallions at the mint of Rome,"
Scripta Nummaria Romana, pg. 109, 19; Gnecchi 6. VF, brown patina, minor roughness, some smoothing. Very rare. ($2000)
From the Michael Weller Collection.