Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 1255. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CONSTANTIUS II. 337-361 AD. AV Solidus (4.46 gm, 6h). Rome mint. Struck 357 AD. FL IVL CONSTAN-TIVS PERP AVG, pearl-diademed bust left, wearing consular robes, holding mappa in right hand and sceptre in left / FELICITAS RO-MANORVM, Roma seated facing, holding spear in right left hand, and Constantinopolis seated left, holding sceptre in right hand and resting foot on prow, both supporting with their right hands between themselves a shield inscribed VOT/XXXV/MVLT/XXXX in four lines; RSMP(palm). RIC VIII 298; Hunter -; DOC 90 var. (officina); Depeyrot 15/3. Superb EF, reverse double struck but only affecting the edge. ($3000)

From the Malcolm W. Heckman Collection.