Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 1773. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005.  Sold For $1000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THEODOSIUS I. 379-395 AD. AV Solidus (4.47 gm, 12h). Constantinople mint. Struck 383 AD. Rosette-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Constantinopolis enthroned facing, head right, right foot on prow, holding sceptre and shield inscribed VOT X MVL X in four lines; G/CONOB. RIC IX 47(b).3; Depeyrot 38/1. Good VF, light scratches. Rare. ($750)

From the Tony Hardy Collection.

The GGGG in the reverse legend denotes the four associate emperors in the period between the elevation of Arcadius on 19 January 383 and the death of the senior emperor Gratian on 25 August of the same year.