101, Lot: 171. Estimate $500. Sold for $360. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THEODOSIUS II. 402-450 AD. AV Solidus (22mm, 4.21 gm). Thessalonica mint. Struck 424-425/30 AD. Diademed, helmeted and cuirassed bust facing slightly right, holding spear over shoulder and shield with horseman motif / Theodosius standing facing, holding labarum in right hand, globus cruciger in left; star in left field; TESOB. RIC 361; D. M. Metcalf, "Minting at Thessalonica in the Fifth and Sixth Centuries," Studies in Early Byzantine Gold Coinage 70-95; Depeyrot 51/1. VF.