Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 1606. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CONTORNIATE, Urbs Roma series. Late 4th century AD. Æ Contorniate (36mm, 24.81 g, 12h). VRBS ROMA, helmeted, draped, and cuirassed bust of Roma right; behind, silver inlay in the form of a palm branch / COLONIA DEDVCTA, S C in exergue, colony founder plowing right with team of oxen. Cf. Alföldi, Kontorniat, 70/493 (obv. [without inlay]/rev. type); Sachero 10 (this coin); Tocci -. VF, brown patina with patches of green and red, minor roughness, weak strike on reverse. Unique variety, this type combination unrecorded by Alföldi. ($1500)

From the John F. Sullivan Collection. Ex Numismatic Fine Arts XXXI (18 March 1993), lot 877; Münzen und Medaillen FPL 463 (Frebruary 1984), no. 55; Virgil Brand Collection (Part 1, Sotheby's, 1 July 1982), lot 116.