Two Attractive Consular Solidi

Sale: Triton X, Lot: 801. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $3500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Valentinian I. AD 364-375. AV Solidus (4.44 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Struck AD 368. D N VALENTINI-ANVS P F AVG, consular bust left, wearing pearl-diadem and imperial mantle, holding mappa in right hand and scepter in left / VOTA PV-BLICA, Valentinian and Valens seated facing, both nimbate, holding a mappa in raised right hand, and scepter in left; bound captive to left and right; *CONS(wreath). RIC IX 29(a); Depeyrot 22/1; DOC 190. Good VF, traces of deposits.

From the Mark Poncin Collection. Ex William H. Williams Collection (Triton VI, 14 January 2003), lot 1111.