Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 1284. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LEO I. 457-474 AD. AV Solidus (4.44 gm). Thessalonica mint. Struck 457-462 AD. D N LEO PE-RPET AVG, pearl-diademed, helmeted, and cuirassed bust facing slightly right, holding spear over shoulder in right hand and shield decorated with horseman motif on left arm / VICTORI-A AVGGG, Victory standing left, holding long cross; star in right field, THSOB. RIC X 617; Depeyrot 56/2; Hunter 1 var. (stars to left and right); DOCLR 554. Good VF. ($500)

From the Malcolm W. Heckman Collection.