Very Rare Consular Portrait

Sale: Triton X, Lot: 817. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $4250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Valentinian III. AD 425-455. AV Solidus (4.44 g, 7h). Rome mint. Struck AD 435. D N PLA VALENTI-NIANVS P F AVG, consular bust left, wearing pearl-diadem and imperial mantle, holding mappa in right hand and cruciform scepter in left / VOT X MVLT XX, Valentinian seated facing, holding mappa in right hand, cruciform scepter in left; R-M//COMOB. RIC X 2034; Lacam 1; Depeyrot 42/1; DOCLR 856 (same reverse die). EF, area of flat strike on reverse, slight wave to flan. Very rare.

From the Mark Poncin Collection. Ex William H. Williams Collection (Classical Numismatic Group Triton VI, 14 January 2003), lot 1155.