Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 1809. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $3650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Julian II. As Caesar, AD 355-360. AV Solidus (4.47 g, 12h). Rome mint, 2nd officina. Struck AD 355-357. Bare-headed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Roma and Constantinopolis enthroned supporting between them shield inscribed with eight-rayed star; RSMS(star). RIC VIII 295 var. (mintmark); Depeyrot 11/2. Good VF, obverse double struck, scrape on reverse. Extremely rare and the only one not in a public collection .

From the Marc Poncin Collection. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 31 (26 October 2005), lot 160 (misdescribed as over-struck).

According to Depeyrot, the only other example of this type is in the collections of the Capitoline Museum in Rome.