Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 1039. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Theodosius II. AD 402-450. AV Solidus (4.47 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Struck AD 425-430. D N THEODO-SIVS P F AVG, pearl-diademed, helmeted, and cuirassed bust facing slightly right, holding spear in right hand, on left arm a shield decorated with horseman spearing an enemy below / SALVS REI-PVB-LICAE, Theodosius II enthroned and Valentinian III standing facing, both in consular robes, and holding mappa in right hand, cruciform scepter in left; star above; CONOB. RIC X 233; MIRB 22; Depeyrot 78/1; DOCLR 370-3. EF, minor weakness of strike.