CNG 103, Lot: 889. Estimate $750. Sold for $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Valens. AD 364-378. AV Solidus (22mm, 4.48 g, 6h). Consular issue. Nicomedia mint. Struck January AD 368. D N VALENS P F AVG, pearl-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust left, wearing consular robes, holding mappa and scepter / VOTA PV BLICA, Valentinian I and Valens enthroned facing, each nimbate and in consular robes, and holding mappa and scepter; in exergue, two bound captives vis-à-vis; N-N-M. RIC IX 16b, 8; cf. Depeyrot 19/2 (S-N-A mintmark); Biaggi 2268 var. (S-MN-N mintmark). VF, graffito “X” on Valens’ neck, a few light scratches. Rare.

From the M. A. Armstrong Collection. Ex Dürr & Michel (16 November 1998), lot 249.