CNG 96, Lot: 874. Estimate $750. Sold for $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Constantius II. AD 337-361. AV Solidus (21mm, 4.31 g, 6h). Tricennalia issue. Nicomedia mint, 3rd officina. Struck AD 351-355. Pearl-diadmed, helmeted, and cuirassed bust facing slightly right, holding spear over shoulder and shield decorated with horseman motif / Roma, helmeted and draped, seated facing, holding spear in left hand, and Constantinopolis, turreted and draped, seated left, holding scepter in left hand and resting right foot on prow; they support between them a shield inscribed VOT/XXX/MVLT/XXXX in four lines; SMNT. RIC VIII 74; Depeyrot 5/2. Near EF, evidence of possibly having been placed in a bezel.