Details
LOT 3139
Constans BI Centenionalis. AD 337-350.
Thessalonica mint; struck AD 348-350. 1st officina. D N CONSTA-NS P F AVG, pearl-diademed, draped and cuirassed bust to right / FEL TEMP REPARATIO, Constans standing to left on galley holding phoenix on globe and labarum with Christogram; at stern sits Victory, steering the ship; TESA below. RIC VIII 109. Near Extremely Fine. Original silvering almost fully intact.(4.60gr, 25mm, 12h.).
Provenance
From the collection of a London antiquarian, formed since the 1980s.
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