Leo I. AD 457-474. AV Solidus (20mm, 4.37 g, 6h). Thessalonica mint. Struck AD 462 or 466. D N LEO PERPET AVG, pearl-diademed, bearded bust left, wearing consular robes, holding mappa in right hand and cruciform scepter in left / VICTORI A AVGGG, Leo I, nimbate, enthroned facing, wearing consular robes, holding mappa in raised right hand and cruciform scepter in left; star to left; THSOB. RIC X 620; Metcalf, Thess. 191 (same obv. die); Depeyrot 58/1. Toned, a few shallow scratches on obverse. Good VF. Rare.
Ex Stack's Bowers Galleries (14 August 2019), lot 20101 (hammer $10,000); Property of an European Nobleman (Numismatica Ars Classica 24, 5 December 2002), lot 353; William J. Conte Collection (Baldwin's 2, 5 October 1994), lot 19; Moreira Collection (Part 2, Superior, 10 December 1988), lot 2582.