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Auction XXIII  24-25 Mar 2022
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Lot 1155

Estimate: 2000 GBP
Price realized: 7000 GBP
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Ostrogoths, Theoderic AV Solidus. In the name of Anastasius I. Rome, AD 493-518. D N ANASTASIVS 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. Metlich 4; Ladich 31; MEC 1, 13; BMC Vandals 62; Lacam p. 917, Type 2, pl. 58, 86 = pl. CCXIX, 3 (same obv. die); NAC 25, 643 (hammer: CHF 2,600). 4.43g, 21mm, 6h.

Mint State. Extremely Rare; Arslan & Metlich cited the existence of only five specimens of this type.

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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