379, Lot: 389. Estimate $300. Sold for $450. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Procopius. Usurper, AD 365-366. AR Siliqua (18.5mm, 1.78 g, 12h). Contemporary imitation of a Constantinople mint issue. DN PIIOCO-DIIIS (S retrograde) D E IIIIO, pearl-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right, without beard / VOT/V in two lines within wreath; Δ•C (C retrograde). Cf. RIC IX 13e; cf. RSC 14†c (both refs. for type). VF, deeply toned.

From the Jonathan K. Kern Collection.