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Auction XXIII  24-25 Mar 2022
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Lot 1141

Estimate: 10 000 GBP
Price realized: 10 000 GBP
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Julius Nepos AV Solidus. Rome, 19 June AD 474 - 28 August AD 475. D N IVL NEPOS P F AVG, helmeted, pearl-diademed and cuirassed bust facing, holding spear and shield decorated with horseman and fallen enemy motif / VICTORIA AVGGG:, Victory standing facing, head to left, holding long jewelled cross; star in right field, COMOB• in exergue. RIC X -; Depeyrot 77/1; DOC -; Lacam -. 4.26g, 20mm, 6h.

Extremely Fine. Extremely Rare; only one example cited by Depeyrot, that held by the Vatican museum, thus seemingly the only example in private hands.

This coin published in I. Vecchi, R. Beale and S. Parkin, The Mare Nostrum Hoard (forthcoming);
From the Mare Nostum Hoard (1954).
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