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CICF Signature Sale 3032 10-12 April 2014
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Constantius II (AD 337-361). AV solidus (21mm, 4.52 gm, 7h). Sirmium, AD 351-355. FL IVL CONSTAN-TIVS PERP AVG, pearl-diademed, helmeted, and cuirassed bust facing, head slightly right, holding spear over right shoulder and shield decorated with horseman left riding down enemy / GLORIA REI -PVBLICAE, Roma and Constantinopolis enthroned, the former facing, the latter turned to left, holding between them a shield inscribed VOT/XXX/MVLT/XXXX/• ; in exergue SIRM preceded by pellet within crescent. RIC 9 (R2). Cohen 112. Depeyrot 7/1. With a remarkably detailed facing bust. NGC (photo-certificate) Choice AU★ 5/5 - 4/5. From The Andre Constantine Dimitriadis Collection. Ex Spink (London, January 1987), lot 344. The armored three-quarter facing bust type seen on this solidus was an innovation by Constantius II that became an archetype for Late Roman and Byzantine coinage struck at Eastern mints. Later die engravers took less care to produce a distinctive portrait, however, and from the later fourth century forward the imperial busts became generic and virtually interchangeable.
Estimate: 2500-3500 USD
Constantius II (AD 337-361). AV solidus (21mm, 4.52 gm, 7h). Sirmium, AD 351-355. FL IVL CONSTAN-TIVS PERP AVG, pearl-diademed, helmeted, and cuirassed bust facing, head slightly right, holding spear over right shoulder and shield decorated with horseman left riding down enemy / GLORIA REI -PVBLICAE, Roma and Constantinopolis enthroned, the former facing, the latter turned to left, holding between them a shield inscribed VOT/XXX/MVLT/XXXX/• ; in exergue SIRM preceded by pellet within crescent. RIC 9 (R2). Cohen 112. Depeyrot 7/1. With a remarkably detailed facing bust. NGC (photo-certificate) Choice AU★ 5/5 - 4/5. From The Andre Constantine Dimitriadis Collection. Ex Spink (London, January 1987), lot 344. The armored three-quarter facing bust type seen on this solidus was an innovation by Constantius II that became an archetype for Late Roman and Byzantine coinage struck at Eastern mints. Later die engravers took less care to produce a distinctive portrait, however, and from the later fourth century forward the imperial busts became generic and virtually interchangeable.
Estimate: 2500-3500 USD