366, Lot: 49. Estimate $500. Sold for $5500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANCIENT COINS USED IN INDIA & INDIAN IMITATIONS. Valens. AD 364-378. AV Solidus (23mm, 4.44 g, 8h). Indian imitation. D И VALEИS TINV ΛVC, pearl-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / (retrograde S)(retrograde E)CVHITΛ P(retrograde S)HVI PVBHCΛ(retrograde B), Roma, facing, and Constantinopolis, left, enthroned, holding between them wreath inscribed VOV/V/HΛ|-/X in four lines; ΛHTIC. Cf. RIC IX 20f; cf. Depeyrot 32/4; cf. Turner pl. II 186 (for obv.); L.A. Adams, “The Indian Imitations of Roman Aurei,” SAN, Vol. XVII, No. 4 (September 1989), Fig. 6 (this coin). VF, evidence of possibly having been placed in a bezel.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams.