Ex Biaggi Collection

Triton XIX, Lot: 634. Estimate $15000. Sold for $10000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Constantius II. AD 337-361. AV Solidus (21mm, 4.32 g, 6h). Arelate (Arles) mint. Struck AD 355-360. FL IVL CONSTAN TIVS PERP AVG, pearl-diademed, helmeted, and cuirassed bust facing slightly right, holding spear over shoulder in right hand and shield decorated with horseman motif in left / GLORIA RE I PVBLICAE, Roma and Constantinopolis, with right foot on prow and holding scepter in left hand, enthroned facing, holding between them a shield inscribed VOT/XXX/MVLT/XXXX in four lines; pellet between; eagle sitting left on top of wreath; KONS(TAN). RIC VIII 233 var. (no eagle or pellet); Depeyrot 5/1 var. (same); Biaggi 2145 (this coin). EF, toned, traces of deposits in devices. Attractive local style.

Ex Leo Biaggi de Blasys Collection, 2145.