Valens. AD 364-378. AV Solidus (22mm, 4.42 g, 1h). Consular issue. Nicomedia mint. Struck AD 368. D N VALENS P F AVG, pearl-diademed bust left, wearing imperial mantle, holding mappa in right hand, scepter in left / VOTA PV BLICA, Valentinian and Valens seated facing, each nimbate, and holding mappa and short scepter; in exergue, bound captives kneeling facing one another; S-(MN)-M. RIC IX 16(b).6; Depeyrot 22/2; Biaggi 2268 (this coin); Bastien 27h (this coin). Lustrous. EF.
Ex Numismatica Genevesis SA VIII (24 November 2014), lot 170; Leo Biaggi de Blasys (1906-1979) Collection; Münzen und Medaillen AG XI (23 January 1953), lot 187.