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Online Auction 143 | Silver  18 Sep 2022
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Lot 367

Starting price: 500 EUR
Price realized: 1600 EUR
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Theodosius I AD 379-395. Struck ca. 440-445 AD. Rome
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37 mm, 25,46 g

D N THEODOSIVS P F AVG, draped, cuirassed and pearl-diademed cust right; c/m / IVLIANVS, charioteer in facing quadriga, holding wreath in his right hand and palm frond in his left.

very fine

Alföldi, Kontorniaten -.

Iulianus was a winner of a chariot race or an honoured person, which was the reason for organising a chariot race in honour of his name. In other specimens from the Alföldi, the names of the winners Faustinus and Johannes are known.

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