Ex Dimitriadis, Phillips, and Oman Collections

CNG 102, Lot: 1122. Estimate $5000. Sold for $4500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Constantine III. AD 407-411. AV Solidus (21mm, 4.43 g, 6h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. 1st emission, AD 407-408. D N CONSTAN TINVS P F AVG, rosette-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / VICTORIA AAAVGGGG, Constantine standing right, holding labarum and Victory on globe, with foot on captive to lower right; L/D//COMOB. RIC X 1506; Lyon 244y (this coin); Depeyrot 20/3. VF, toned, minor die rust, edge flaw. Very rare.

From the estate of Thomas Bentley Cederlind. Ex Andre Constantine Dimitriadis Collection (Heritage, 10 April 2014), lot 23736 (hammer $4750; incorrectly attributed to RIC X 1505 and Depeyrot 22/3); Neil S. Phillips Collection (Spink 121, 7 October 1997), lot 419; Sir Charles Oman Collection (Christie’s, 12 November 1968), lot 344.