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Rare Imitation of Marcian

Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 1076. Estimate $2500. 
Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008. 
Sold For $2500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

UNCERTAIN GERMANIC TRIBES. Mid 5th century AD or later. AV Solidus (4.52 g, 5h). In the name of Marcian. CN IIΛRCIΛ INVS V F ΛVC (some letters retrograde), helmeted, diademed, and cuirassed facing bust, holding spear in right hand, shield on left arm / VICTORI-Λ ΛVCCC, Victory standing left, holding in right hand a long cross with labarum-like ornamentation at the top; star to right; Δ//COIIVO. Gorny & Mosch 134, lot 3339 (same rev. die), otherwise unpublished. Near EF, Extremely rare.


Ex Baldwin’s 47 (25 September 2006), lot 227.

Imitations of Marcian’s coinage are extremely rare, with apparently the only example published being a solidus found in Scandinavia (J.M. Fagerlie, Late Roman and Byzantine Solidi found in Sweden and Denmark, NNM 157 [1967], pl. XVI, 377). The engraving of that coin, however, is significantly different from the present and Gorny specimens.