Watch List notes:

Valens. AD 364-378. AV Solidus (22mm, 4.42 g, 12h). Decennalia issue. Antioch mint, 1st officina. Struck AD 372. D N VALEN S PER F AVG, rosette-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / GLORIA R O MANORVM, Roma and Constantinopolis, with right foot on prow and holding scepter in left hand, enthroned facing, holding between them a shield inscribed VOT/X/MVL/XX in four lines; Christogram above; ANOBA. RIC IX 16d1; Depeyrot 38/3; Biaggi 2250 var. (officina). Near EF, traces of underlying luster.


Ex Numismatic Fine Arts XXVI (14 August 1991), lot 366.