Impressive Pedigreed Medallion

Triton XX, Lot: 875. Estimate $75000. Sold for $50000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Constans. AD 337-350. AR Medallion (39mm, 13.23 g, 11h). Quinqennalia issue. Thessalonica mint. Struck AD 342. FL IVL CON STANS P F AVG, laurel and rosette-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / GAVDIVM POPVLI ROMANI, SIC/V/SIC/X in four lines within laurel wreath; TSЄ in exergue. RIC VIII 45 var. (obv. legend); Gnecchi 6 = Cohen 34; RSC 33 var. (same); NAC 84, lot 1220 (same dies, but an earlier die state); Tkalec (24 October 2003), lot 422 (same dies). EF, toned, small hairline flan crack at 4 o’clock on obverse, hint of double strike on reverse, evidence of prior mounting. Extremely rare, one of four known with only P F in obverse legend.

From the Continental Collection. Ex Schweizerischer Bankverein 38 (12 September 1995), lot 391.