Unpublished Miliarense

186, Lot: 213. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Constantius II. AD 337-361. AR Miliarense (22mm, 5.32 g). Constantinople mint. Struck AD 355-361. D N CONSTAN-TIVS MAX AVG, Pearl-diademed and cuirassed bust right / VICTORIA AVGVSTI, Victory standing slightly left, holding wreath in right hand isncribed X, shield in left hand isncribed VOT/XXXV/MVLT/XXXX in four lines, at her feet sit two captives; C•G. Cf. RIC VIII 132; cf. RSC 220. VF, evenly porous. Apparently unpublished.

A similar coin, also unpublished, in the March 2008 Gorny Auction (lot 452) shows a nearly identical reverse type except the shield is simply inscribed VOT XXXX in two lines.