Extremely Rare Aelia Flaccilla Siliqua

Sale: Triton X, Lot: 805. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $5000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Aelia Flaccilla. Augusta, AD 379-386/8. AR Siliqua (2.10 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Struck circa AD 383-388. AEL FLAC-CILLA AVG, diademed and draped bust right / Christogram within wreath; CONS•. RIC IX 78; RSC 8f; DOC -. Good VF, toned, minor porosity, light cleaning marks, flan flaw on reverse. Extremely rare.

From the Marc Poncin Collection. Ex Gemini I (11 January 2005), lot 479.

Flaccilla’s siliquae are among the rarest. The BM is the only major museum collection with an example, and there are none in the ANS. Although one was present in the collection of Sir Arthur Evans (Ars Classica XVII, lot 1932), there were none in the Mazzini, Trau, Bement, Jameson, Guerin, Heynen, or Echt collections.