Two Scarce Augustae

Sale: Triton X, Lot: 812. Estimate $2500.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $3400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Aelia Pulcheria. Augusta, AD 414-453. AV Solidus (4.47 g, 12h). Constantinople mint, 5th officina. Struck AD 423-425. AEL PVLCH-ERIA AVG, pearl-diademed and draped bust right, wearing earring and necklace; crowned by manus Dei / VOT XX MVLT XXX, Victory standing left, holding long jeweled cross in right hand; E//CONOB. RIC X 220; Depeyrot 75/3; DOCLR 437. EF, minor scratches in obverse fields.

From the Mark Poncin Collection. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 27 (12 May 2004), lot 536.