271, Lot: 94. Estimate $5000. Sold for $10000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Commemorative Series. AD 330-354. Æ Pattern of 1½ Solidi (25mm, 6.10 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Struck circa AD 330. CONSTAN TINOPOLI, turreted and draped bust of Constantinopolis left, wearing elaborate neckless / Victory standing facing between two shields set on ground, holding wreath in right hand and palm frond in left; CONS. RIC -; Ntantalia -; Kent -; Gnecchi -. Good VF, dark green patina, some red, minor roughness and smoothing. Unique.

Property of Princeton Economics acquired by Martin Armstrong. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 15 (18 May 1999), lot 489.