Choice Tricennalia Solidus

CNG 85, Lot: 1214. Estimate $7500. Sold for $8700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Constantine I. AD 307/310-337. AV Solidus (21mm, 4.17 g, 12h). Tricennalia issue. Nicomedia mint, 1st officina. Struck circa 25 July AD 335. Laurel-and-rosette diademed head right; diadem ends in two ties / VICTORIA CONSTANTINI AVG, Victory seated right on shield and cuirass, holding wreath inscribed VOT/XXX in two lines; wreath supported from underneath by Cupid standing left: SMNP. RIC VII 177; Alföldi 616 var. (three ties); Depeyrot 44/1; Calicó -. EF, cleaning marks in fields.